Description
“The Flea Palace” is a novel set in Istanbul’s Bonbon Palace, a once-grand apartment building now in disrepair. The story interweaves the lives of its diverse residents, including a womanizing academic, a cleanliness-obsessed woman and her lice-ridden daughter, a lapsed Jew seeking true love, and a naive mistress with a mysterious past. When the building’s garbage is stolen, a series of events unfolds, leading the residents on a quest for truth and self-discovery. Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist, whose work has been translated into fifty-six languages. She is the author of nineteen books, twelve of which are novels, and is a bestselling author in many countries around the world.
