Synopsis
Bonbon Palace was once a stately apartment block in Istanbul. Now it is a sadly dilapidated home to ten wildly different individuals and their families.
There's a womanizing, hard-drinking academic with a penchant for philosophy; a 'clean freak' and her lice-ridden daughter; a lapsed Jew in search of true love; and a charmingly naïve mistress whose shadowy past lurks in the building. When the rubbish at Bonbon Palace is stolen, a mysterious sequence of events unfold that result in a soul-searching quest for truth.
By turns comic and tragic, The Flea Palace is an outstandingly original novel driven by a powerful sense of social justice.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- ISBN: 9780241201909
- Number of pages: 448
- Dimensions: 198 x 128 x 28 mm
- Weight: 302g
- Languages: English
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A wonderful book, beautifully articulated and a delightful read.
The Flea Palace was the first of Shafak's books that I read, and I subsequently bought four more! It's a wonderful book, delightful to read and very clever... READ MORE
Disappointing
I have read many books by this author and enjoyed them all - except this one. I found it tedious and struggled to get even half way through. I had to aband... READ MORE