Shafak, Elif
The Flea Palace Elif Shafak - London Penguin Books 2015 - 444 Pages 20x13 cm PB
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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.
9780241201909
Social conditions
Turkish fiction
Apartment houses
894.3533
The Flea Palace Elif Shafak - London Penguin Books 2015 - 444 Pages 20x13 cm PB
Include Glossary
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.
9780241201909
Social conditions
Turkish fiction
Apartment houses
894.3533