{"product_id":"9780241201909","title":"The Flea Palace","description":"\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Elif Shafak's The Flea Palace 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. By turns comic and tragic, The Flea Palace is an outstandingly original novel driven by an overriding sense of social justice. 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 na�ve 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. 'Picaresque' Guardian'Hyperactive and hilarious' Independent*** ELIF SHAFAK'S NEW NOVEL, THERE ARE RIVERS IN THE SKY, IS AVAILABLE NOW ***\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elif Shafak","offers":[{"title":"448 pages \/ 02\/04\/2015 \/ Modern \u0026 contemporary fiction (post c 1945)","offer_id":56965814452599,"sku":"9780241201909","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9780241201909_0fe4fd38-17f5-4c8a-8e71-416d2be020f3.jpg?v=1779293229","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9780241201909","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}