The Flea Palace
By: Elif Shafak;
Language: English
Quality: Like New
Genre: Historical fiction, Novel,
ISBN: 9780241201909
SKU: BE501390912587
Pages: 448
Description: NOTE: MINOR DAMAGE , DISCOLORATION ON COVER.INSIDE CONDITION IS GOOD. 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 garbage at Bonbon Palace is stolen, a mysterious sequence of events unfolds that result in a soul-searching quest for truth.