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Gabriele

by Anne Berest

  

€ 23.75 

ISBN: 9781787705692

An atmospheric, exuberant novel about love and sex, art and revolution, experimentation and creativity from the best-selling author of The Postcard, Anne Berest, and her sister, the acclaimed novelist Claire Berest, based on the life of their great grandmother.


The year is 1908, the height of the Belle Epoque, and a brilliant, young French woman named Gabriele, newly graduated from the most elite music school in Europe, meets a volcanic Spanish artist named Francis. Following a whirlwind romance, they marry and fall headlong into a Paris that is experimenting with new forms of living, thinking, and creating. Soon after marrying Francis, Gabriele meets Marcel, another young artist, five years her junior. Soon, Francis, Marcel, and Gabriele are all three involved in a fervent affair that will change the course of art history and redefine the avant-garde. Surrealism, Dada, and Abstraction are among the new artistic practices and new ideas that emerge from this electric love triangle in the following decade, during which the Belle Epoque sours and the world descends into the devastation of World War I. Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp, and Gabriele Buffet-the protagonists of this brilliantly imagined "true novel"-are vividly reimagined by the Berests. Moving between Paris, New York, Berlin, Zurich, Barcelona, and Saint-Tropez, Gabriele is as audacious, uninhibited, and unforgettable as its central character, the mercurial, pioneering Gabriele Buffet.

432 pages.

Not Yet Published.

Printed on or after 08/05/25. Please note dispatch may take 5-10 days after publication date.
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Date of Publication: 08/05/2025

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