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The Flea Palace

Elif Shafak

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Description:The setting is a stately residence in Istanbul built by Russian noble emigre 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 narrative structure of A Thousand and One Nights to construct a story-within-a-story narrative. 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, we have a metaphoric conduit for the cultural and spiritual decay in the heart of Istanbul.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Flea Palace. To get started finding The Flea Palace, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 452

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers

Release: 2004

ISBN: mgYQAAAAYAAJ

Description: The setting is a stately residence in Istanbul built by Russian noble emigre 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 narrative structure of A Thousand and One Nights to construct a story-within-a-story narrative. 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, we have a metaphoric conduit for the cultural and spiritual decay in the heart of Istanbul.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Flea Palace. To get started finding The Flea Palace, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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