{"product_id":"in-one-brief-moment-all-eternity","title":"In One Brief Moment All Eternity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFROM THE BOOKER AND WOMEN'S-PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF \u003cem\u003eTHERE ARE RIVERS IN THE SKY\u003c\/em\u003e AND \u003cem\u003eTHE ISLAND OF MISSING TREES\u003c\/em\u003e - AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDuring 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?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIn One Brief Moment All Eternity\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShafak 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?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBoldly inventive, transporting and illuminating, spanning decades and continents, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIn One Brief Moment All Eternity\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a dazzling love letter to literature, untold stories, neglected communities and the enduring spirit of humanity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003chr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Make place for Elif Shafak on your bookshelf. Make place for her in your heart too. You won't regret it' - \u003cstrong\u003eArundhati Roy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'One of the best writers in the world today' - \u003cstrong\u003eHanif Kureishi \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e'I read this beautiful, polyphonic, learned, deeply absorbing book in a trance of pleasure. Despite the suffering, political violence, illness, death, and cultural stupidities that shape this story of a literary hero and his tremendous, if blinkered, heroine, I closed the novel with a feeling of gratitude for the abiding power of literature and its transformative magic.' - \u003cstrong\u003eSiri Hustvedt\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57611316429173,"sku":"978-0241745465","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/7c7ba7f8-7cf9-4bf1-bb03-f2650dc71cd5.jpg?v=1790432657","url":"https:\/\/goldsborobooks.com\/products\/in-one-brief-moment-all-eternity","provider":"Goldsboro Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}