by Elif Shafak · Penguin UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141048956
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«The Flea Palace» is the contemporary fiction novel by Elif Shafak, published by Penguin UK in paperback (448 pages, in English).
The action takes place in Istanbul among the eccentric residents of Bonbon Palace, a building once elegant and now decrepit: a womanizing academic, a cleaning obsessive with her daughter, a Jew in search of love, and a mistress with a dark past. The theft of the trash triggers a mysterious search for the truth.
The novel was originally published as Bit Palas in 2002; this English edition is translated by Müge Göçek. The book was a finalist for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2005.
For readers of contemporary fiction and Turkish literature who appreciate choral narratives set in urban environments.
Elif Shafak is a Turkish-British novelist, essayist, public speaker, political scientist, and activist.
