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In One Brief Moment All Eternity - by  Elif Shafak (Hardcover) - 1 of 1

In One Brief Moment All Eternity - by Elif Shafak (Hardcover)

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  • In this boldly rendered novel, a meditation on creativity in the darkest of times, Elif Shafak imagines in vivid color the life of legendary French writer Gustave Flaubert and all the women who possessed him--the fictional ones he conjured and the real ones who shaped him--particularly Madame Bovary.
  • About the Author: ELIF SHAFAK is an award-winning British-Turkish author of a dozen novels, including There Are Rivers in the Sky, The Island of Missing Trees (shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award), and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World (shortlisted for the Booker Prize).
  • 304 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary

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In this boldly rendered novel, a meditation on creativity in the darkest of times, Elif Shafak imagines in vivid color the life of legendary French writer Gustave Flaubert and all the women who possessed him--the fictional ones he conjured and the real ones who shaped him--particularly Madame Bovary.

Long considered one of the world's most influential writers, Gustave Flaubert paved the way for generations of novelists to come, and no protagonist of his is more indelibly immortalized than Madame Emma Bovary, whose tempestuous-yet-quotidian existence has captured the minds of nearly two centuries of readers. But Flaubert wrote Emma into being during one of the most chaotic and transformative eras in French history, replete with war, famine, and violence, and one of his own most troubled periods, during which he faced censorship and imprisonment. With remarkable discipline, Flaubert forged onwards, unstoppably embodying the drive and need to create during times of immense personal and political transformation.

On the heels of her most successful book yet, There Are Rivers in the Sky, Shafak has given us a triumphant new tale that weaves the traditions of the European realist novel with the ethereal, twilight-tinged oral storytelling of the Middle East. It is a novel fired by the questions long haunting Shafak's work--Who gets to speak, and what would the silenced have said?--and shot through with a transcendent lightness and sensuality, each chapter tinged with different prisms of hues that evoke the vibrancy of Flaubert's epileptic episodes. It's a tale suffused by that feeling which comes when you are grabbed by a story and a character and plunged into the life of another, tumbling through space and time from the reader's present to Flaubert's 19th-century France.

"Madame Bovary, c'est moi," Flaubert is alleged to have said. But indeed, Flaubert was many others, and now, for the first time, these female ghosts--Flaubert's nanny, his mistress, a corpse, a half-drawn character--finally speak, their stories pouring forth with a tenderness and agony that will renew one's faith in the transformational power of art, even in the grimmest of times. One of the most breathtaking and inventive novels of Shafak's oeuvre, in the vein of Colm Tóibín and Maggie O'Farrell's literary reimaginations, this book bridges worlds--between East and West, past and present, intellectual and spiritual, real and imaginary, and even hope and despair, dancing delicately on the knife's edge of each.



About the Author



ELIF SHAFAK is an award-winning British-Turkish author of a dozen novels, including There Are Rivers in the Sky, The Island of Missing Trees (shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award), and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World (shortlisted for the Booker Prize). Her work has been translated into fifty-six languages. She holds a PhD in political science and has taught at universities in Turkey, the U.S., and the UK. She lives in London and is an honorary fellow at Oxford University.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.25 Inches (H) x 6.13 Inches (W) x .75 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.11 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 304
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Literary
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
Author: Elif Shafak
Language: English
Street Date: January 12, 2027
TCIN: 1011280199
UPC: 9780593801734
Item Number (DPCI): 247-48-5081
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Q: What is the author's background?

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Q: How does the author blend different storytelling traditions?

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Q: Who is the main historical figure in the story?

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Q: What themes are explored in this novel?

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