{"product_id":"the-flea-palace-by-elif-shafak","title":"The Flea Palace By Elif Shafak","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShortlisted for the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Elif Shafak's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Flea Palace\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy turns comic and tragic, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Flea Palace\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an outstandingly original novel driven by an overriding sense of social justice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Picaresque' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGuardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Hyperactive and hilarious' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIndependent\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e*** ELIF SHAFAK'S NEW NOVEL,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTHERE ARE RIVERS IN THE SKY\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, IS AVAILABLE NOW ***\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Bank","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50043440365807,"sku":null,"price":300.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0825\/4423\/0639\/files\/1873c6fa993a0520650aa3a99e0c49e6.jpg?v=1782820967","url":"https:\/\/thebookbank.pk\/products\/the-flea-palace-by-elif-shafak","provider":"thebookbank","version":"1.0","type":"link"}