The Flea Palace
448 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 2002
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ISBN: 9780714531205
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers
Publication date: 1 April 2007
Description
Set within a once-stately apartment block in Istanbul, The Flea Palace tells the story of Bonbon Palace, built by Russian noble émigré Pavel Antipov for his wife Agripina at the end of the Tsarist reign. It is now sadly dilapidated, flea-infested, and home to ten very different individuals and their families. Elif Shafak gives us a bird’s-eye insight into each apartment, and we see their comic and tragic lives unfold.
