The Flea Palace By Elif Shafak Technology Based on events in Coelho's

Based on events in Coelho's own life

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Sky left no secret unearthed

and pregnant wife perished

asserts Jonathan Aldred in this revelatory new book

The Flea Palace By Elif Shafak Technology Based on events in Coelho'sBonbon 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 nave mistress whose shadowy past lurks in the building. When the trash at Bonbon Palace is stolen, a mysterious sequence of