The Flea Palace
€13.90
Product Information
| ISBN | 9780241201909 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elif Shafak |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 448 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.312 |
| Publishing Date | 02/04/2015 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €13.11 |
| Tax | €0.79 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €13.90 |
| Availability | +20 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
Shortlisted for the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Elif Shafak''s The Flea Palace is a moving and highly original novel about a group of individuals who live in the same building and who together become embroiled in a mystery.
By turns comic and tragic, The Flea Palace is an outstandingly original novel driven by an overriding sense of social justice.
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 unfolds that result in a soul-searching quest for truth.
''Picaresque'' Guardian
''Hyperactive and hilarious'' Independent
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