num_pages: 448
description: Set 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.
language: English
title: The Flea Palace
titlecomplete: The Flea Palace
genres: Turkish, Roman, Unfinished, Novels, Turkish Literature, Historical Fiction, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 6605
places: Istanbul
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
category: Shortlist
publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers