@bookishreadsandme: Book Feature How incredible is this bookmail that Yazmeen from @Viking Books UK kindly sent me! Thanks so much! I love all the extra touches that were thoughtfully put together with it! I do have a confession to make. . . I own the majority of Elif’s books and I still haven’t read any of them 🙈 How bad is that! I will have to put this straight immediately! This book is a reinvention of the writer Gustave Flaubert, told through the eyes of the women that shaped him. Synopsis 👇 During a time of great turmoil, Gustave Flaubert created literature's most scandalous heroine: Madame Bovary. He then poisoned her with arsenic. But what if, 175 years later, Emma – and the women history overlooked – could seize the quill from his hands and tell a different story?  In One Brief Moment All Eternity is a luminous reinvention of an iconic male writer, told through the eyes of the women – real and fictional – who shaped him: a devoted nursemaid, an Egyptian dancer and a passionate, jealous lover who refuses to be forgotten. Through their voices, visionary author Elif Shafak creates both an intimate portrait of a great artist and an epic meditation on storytelling itself: who gets remembered, who gets erased, and how can literature endure through political upheaval, war and injustice? When the world feels broken, how do we find the hope to carry on?  Shafak takes readers on an extraordinary journey through time and space, from Flaubert's unusual childhood in a house that was part home, part hospital, part morgue, to nineteenth-century Paris during the Revolution, and onwards to Istanbul, Cairo, Palestine and Beirut. In this exhilarating tale, the questions at the heart of her work take on a thrilling new urgency: who gets to speak, and what would the silenced have said? —— It’s out on the 15th October. Do you like fictional books based around real life people from history? #inonebriefmomentalleternity #elifshafak #bookmail #bookrecs #BookTok

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