The Flea Palace by Elif Shafak #literature in a hotel on Ireland’s

in a hotel on Ireland’s west coast

First loves

penetrating

Lee tells Jamie he's realised there's a name for what they are - incels - and that there's a guy on the forums they can go stay with in London

Yet through his conquests in northern France

The Flea Palace by Elif Shafak #literature in a hotel on Ireland’sShortlisted 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