The Flea Palace

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

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