{"product_id":"9780241201909","title":"The Flea Palace - Elif Shafak (Paperback) 02-04-2015","description":"\u003cp\u003eShortlisted 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.  By turns comic and tragic, The Flea Palace is an outstandingly original novel driven by an overriding sense of social justice.  Bonbon Palace was once a stately apartment block in Istanbul. Now it is a sadly dilapidated home to ten wildly different individuals and their families.  There'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 naive 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.  'Picaresque' Guardian  'Hyperactive and hilarious' Independent  *** ELIF SHAFAK'S NEW NOVEL, THERE ARE RIVERS IN THE SKY, IS AVAILABLE NOW ***\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Ivybridge Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Elif Shafak \/ Fiction - Paperback \/ 02-04-2015","offer_id":56174076658044,"sku":"9780241201909","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0535\/2344\/8005\/files\/9780241201909.jpg?v=1767195916","url":"https:\/\/www.ivybridgebookshop.com\/products\/9780241201909","provider":"The Ivybridge Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}