Het luizenpaleis
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9789044507027 (9044507028)
Publish date: July 18th 2006
Publisher: De Geus
Pages no: 476
Edition language: Dutch
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...