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The Flea Palace Islamiat Pari and Abdullah have noAuthor Name : Elif Shafak Set within a once stately apartment block in Istanbul, The Flea Palace tells the story of Bonbon Palace, built by a Russian emigre for his wife at the end of the Tsarist reign, now sadly dilapidated, flea infested and home to ten very different individuals and their families. Shafak uses the narrative structure of A Thousand and One Nights to construct a story within a story, as the mystery of the apartment's stolen garbage