A review by booksandflowers
Bit Palas by Elif Shafak

4.0

The story follows the residents of an apartment block in Istanbul as they try to stop the rubbish smell caused by people dumping their garbage in front of the building. There are very colourful yet not so deep characters. Each chapter is dedicated to another flat and its resident/s. I appreciate Shafak’s ability and talent to use her prose and to create beautiful sentences. However, I do not like Shafak the person because she tends to jump on every bandwagon, tries to put every idea that comes to her mind into her stories. She did not do these in this book. So I enjoyed it more than the others. This is her best work I have read so far. I will continue reading her other and earlier works.