In One Brief Moment All Eternity with Elif Shafak

Wed 2 Dec · 17 Queensberry Place London · SW7

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In One Brief Moment All Eternity with Elif Shafak Wed 2 Dec 2026 Books & Ideas Talks Women Shaping the World Highlights of the Month Some 175 years after Gustave Flaubert gave Emma Bovary her arsenic death, Booker Prize shortlisted author Elif Shafak hands the pen to the women who shaped him, real and fictional: a devoted nursemaid, an Egyptian dancer, a passionate lover who refuses to be forgotten, and Emma herself. In One Brief Moment All Eternity is a luminous reinvention of Flaubert’s life, from his childhood in Rouen to revolutionary Paris, Istanbul, Cairo and Beirut.

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