Дворецът на бълхите
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9789542709398
Publish date: April 8th 2013
Publisher: Егмонт България
Pages no: 368
Edition language: Bulgarian
The story of The Flea Palace is set in an apartment building from the 1960s in the centre of Istanbul, the so called Bonbon Palace. The name is a tribute to the woman – Agrippina Fjodorowna Antipowa, a Russian aristocrat who emigrated to Turkey after the revolution – that the once impressing, always...
A fine and entertaining comic novel. The format of focusing on a large cast of characters, each of whom has a problem of some sort, could suggest a feel-good ending is on the way, but no, this is more honest and satisfying: some people's lives get better over the course of the book, but some get wor...