The flea palace / by Elif Shafak ; translated by Müge Göçek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shafak, Elif, 1971-

Contributor:

Göçek, Müge.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Bit palas. English

Language:

English

Turkish

Subjects (All):

Istanbul (Turkey)--Social conditions--Fiction.

Istanbul (Turkey).

Genre:

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

444 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Marion Boyars, 2004.

Summary:

"An enchanting combination of compassion and cruelty . . . Elif Shafak is the best author to come out of Turkey in the last decade."-Orhan Pamuk

The setting is a stately residence in Istanbul, built by Russian noble C)migrC) Pavel Antipov for his wife Agripina at the end of the Tsarist reign-now sadly dilapidated, flea-infested and home to ten families. Shafak uses the structure of "A Thousand and One Nights" to construct a story-within-a-story narrative.

Elif Shafak is an outstanding name amongst young Turkish authors. She has written four novels and won the Mevlana Prize for the best work in mystical and transcendental literature. She is in the middle of a residency at the Massachusetts Five College Program in women's studies and resides in Mount Holyoke, USA.

ISBN:

0714531014

OCLC:

55644965