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The Flea Palace

(2004)
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Inhabitants include Ethel, a lapsed Jew in search of true love and the sad and beautiful Blue Mistress whose personal secret provides the novel with an unforgettable denouement. Add to this a strange, intensifying stench whose cause is revealed at the end of the book, and we have a metaphoric conduit for the cultural and spiritual decay in the heart of Istanbul.

Genre: Literary Fiction

Praise for this book

"The best author to come out of Turkey in the last decade." - Orhan Pamuk


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