{"product_id":"the-flea-palace-by-elif-shafak","title":"The Flea Palace by Elif Shafak","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Elif Shafak's \u003ci\u003eThe Flea Palace\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy turns comic and tragic, \u003ci\u003eThe Flea Palace\u003c\/i\u003e is an outstandingly original novel driven by an overriding sense of social justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBonbon Palace was once a stately apartment block in Istanbul. Now it is a sadly dilapidated home to ten wildly different individuals and their families.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Picaresque' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Hyperactive and hilarious' \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElif Shafak is an award-winning British Turkish novelist, whose work has been translated into fifty-eight languages. The author of twenty books, thirteen of which are novels, she is a bestselling author in many countries around the world. Shafak's novel \u003ci\u003e10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the RSL Ondaatje Prize. \u003ci\u003eThe Island of Missing Trees\u003c\/i\u003e was a \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and the Women's Prize for Fiction. \u003ci\u003eThere are Rivers in the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e, which won an Edward Stanford Award for Fiction, is her latest novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShafak holds a PhD in political science, and is a Fellow and a Vice President of the Royal Society of Literature. She has been awarded the medal of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and, in 2024, was awarded the British Academy President's Medal for 'her excellent body of work which demonstrates an incredible intercultural range'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2016\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Viking","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51259944960285,"sku":"9780241201909","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0511\/5897\/files\/Screenshot2026-05-07at3.21.34pm.png?v=1778181744","url":"https:\/\/www.middleeastbooks.com\/products\/the-flea-palace-by-elif-shafak","provider":"Middle East Books and More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}