قصر الحلوى | أليف شافاك

A building given to his sweetheart by a Russian aristocratic immigrant.
In the building are the contradictions and tensions of Istanbulite society from
immigrants, minorities, marginalized, and lunatics: a university professor; Two
twins who run a barber shop; a pious man with his daughter-in-law and grandchildren;
a woman obsessed with cleanliness and her sloppy daughter; and the Blue Mistress.
But the novel "The Candy Palace" is, above all, a novel about social injustice
and about the fear of losing identity, and the domination of fate over
the destinies of characters, and the game of love that is judged by confused souls

Elif Shafak is the best novel writer in Turkey this decade.
(Orhan Pamuk)