# The Flea Palace

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- Book: [The Flea Palace](https://www.bookquiver.com/elif-shafak/the-flea-palace) ([The Flea Palace.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/elif-shafak/the-flea-palace.md))
- Authors: [Elif Shafak](https://www.bookquiver.com/elif-shafak)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4196-137-8
- Published: 2012-10-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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. 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 unfold that result in a soul-searching quest for truth. By turns comic and tragic, The Flea Palace is an outstandingly original novel driven by a powerful sense of social justice.