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The Flea Palace

The Flea Palace

Author(s): Elif Shafak

Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Modern

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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.

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