Penguin Books The Flea Palace

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 a strikingly original novel driven by an overriding sense of social justice. Bonbon palace was once a grand apartment building in istanbul.

şimdi on farklı bireyin ve ailelerinin yaşadığı, üzücü bir şekilde eski bir ev. 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 naive 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