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Bonbon 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; and a lapsed Jew in search of true love.
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Bonbon Palace was once a stately apartment block in Istanbul. Now it is the sadly dilapidated home to 10 wildly different individuals and their families, and the setting for this original novel, by turns comic and tragic, and driven by an overriding sense of social justice. 'The best author to come out of Turkey in the last decade' Orhan Pamuk