THE BASTARD OF ISTANBUL and THE FLEA PALACE by Elif Shafak — German rights to THE BASTARD OF ISTANBUL Elif Shafak’s novel which tells the tale of two families, an exiled Armenian family living in San Francisco and the Kazancis of Istanbul, whose contemporary stories conjoin through a family secret that began with the 1915 massacre of Armenians and THE FLEA PALACE, an earlier novel set in Instanbul that tells the stories of the residents of a dilapidated apartment house built by a Russian émigré for his wife to Eichborn’s Doris Engelke by Jacqueline LeDonne for Marly Rusoff Agency.
