{"product_id":"9780241201909","title":"The Flea Palace by Elif Shafak","description":"Shortlisted 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.\u003cp\u003eBy turns comic and tragic, The Flea Palace is an outstandingly original novel driven by an overriding sense of social justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBonbon Palace was once a stately apartment block in Istanbul. Now it is a sadly dilapidated home to ten wildly different individuals and their families.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere'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 naïve 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Picaresque' Guardian'Hyperactive and hilarious' Independent*** ELIF SHAFAK'S NEW NOVEL, THERE ARE RIVERS IN THE SKY, IS AVAILABLE NOW ***\u003c\/p\u003e,\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback,\u003cbr\u003ePagination: 448 pages","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47291895382243,"sku":"9780241201909","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1701\/6275\/files\/9780241201909.jpg?v=1764066221","url":"https:\/\/www.harbourbookshop.co.uk\/products\/9780241201909","provider":"The Harbour Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}