The Flea Palace

'A cast of wacky flat-dwellers lend it punch and pizazz'The Independent'Shafak can switch from a picaresque tale of a father and son's broken noses to astute observations of how strangely despair and love manifest themselves without pausing'The GuardianElif Shafak has written six novels, four of which are now in English, and has won the Mevlana Prize for literature as well as the Turkish Novel Award.