The Flea Palace The moving historical novel from the bestselling author of There Are Rivers in the Sky

<p>Shortlisted for the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Elif Shafak's <i>The Flea Palace</i> 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.<br><br>By turns comic and tragic, <i>The Flea Palace</i> is an outstandingly original novel driven by an overriding sense of social justice.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>'Picaresque' <i>Guardian</i><br><br>'Hyperactive and hilarious' <i>Independent</i><br><br><b>*** ELIF SHAFAK'S NEW NOVEL, </b><i><b>THERE ARE RIVERS IN THE SKY</b></i><b>, IS AVAILABLE NOW ***</b></p>