The Flea Palace
by:
Elif Shafak (author)
Muge Gocek (author)
“She has a particular genius for depicting backstreet Istanbul, where the myriad cultures of the Ottoman Empire are still in tangled evidence on every family tree.”—The New York Times Book ReviewSet within a once-stately apartment block in Istanbul, The Flea Palace tells the story of Bonbon...
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“She has a particular genius for depicting backstreet Istanbul, where the myriad cultures of the Ottoman Empire are still in tangled evidence on every family tree.”—The New York Times Book ReviewSet 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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780714531205 (0714531200)
ASIN: 714531200
Publish date: April 1st 2007
Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
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...
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