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By Elif Shafak

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What if Madame Bovary had a say in her own story? Elif Shafak, author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World pens a unique, wondrous novel that looks at the life of author Gustave Flaubert through the eyes of the women who shaped him and the female characters he brought to life.

A luminous novel of the life of Gustave Flaubert, the iconic author of Madame Bovary, told through the eyes of the women—real and fictional—who shaped him, from the Booker-shortlisted, internationally bestselling author

“I read this beautiful, polyphonic, learned, deeply absorbing book in a trance of pleasure. I closed the novel with a feeling of gratitude for the abiding power of literature and its transformative magic.” —Siri Hustvedt, author of What I Loved

Elif Shafak’s novel opens on the...