THE FLEA PALACE - Praise
The Flea Palace extract in The Guardian. Click here.
Her literary sucess and journalism mark her out as a figurehead of a next generation of writers, who use literature to reconfigure Turkish identity, and its relatonship to the country's history.
The Independent
Shafak can switch from a picareque tale of a father and son's broken noses to astute observations of how strangely despair and love manifest themselves without pausing.
The Guardian
A cast of wacky flat-dwellers lends it punch and pizazz.
The Independent
