The Flea Palace by Elif Shafak

The Flea Palace by Elif ShafakShortlisted 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

I am soulless and heartless

'and no one knows why it's this bit and not any other bit

For as long as anyone can remember

Mill's passionate advocacy of spontaneity

Acclaimed as a modern-day classic

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stunned the world when he and his co-founders walked away from a three-billion-dollar offer from Facebook: how could an app teenagers use to text dirty photos dream of a higher valuation

The author worked for years with some of the very best entrepreneurs on the planet and distilled their secrets into 20 mental principles that enabled them to start from zero and create billions of dollars in value during one life span

both ancient and contemporary

Luffy and his swashbuckling crew in their search for the ultimate treasure

and leverage current and emerging technologies

Features Osho's unique perspective on overcoming fear and embracing change