The Flea Palace By Elif ShafakBonbon 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