In One Brief Moment All Eternity: A Novel

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 Mada...