In One Brief Moment All Eternity is an astonishing new novel by the bestselling,
prize-winning novelist Elif Shafak. Spanning decades and continents, from
revolutionary 19th century France to Istanbul, Egypt and Beirut, it is a profound
meditation on creativity in times of political crisis and war, asking what literature
can hope to offer when the world feels broken. Building a fascinating bridge
between Western prose and Eastern poetry, this story offers a luminous portrait
of the life of an iconic writer, Gustave Flaubert, author of Madame Bovary, told
through the lives of the women – both real and fictional – who shaped him.
 
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British Turkish novelist, whose work has been
translated into fifty-seven languages. The author of twenty books, fourteen of
which are novels, she is a bestselling author in many countries around the
world. Shafak's previous novel, THERE ARE RIVERS IN THE SKY, was the
UK’s bestselling literary hardback novel of 2025, selling over 500,000 copies.
Her work has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Women’s Prize for
Fiction, the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction,
amongst others, and she is currently nominated for ‘Author of the Year’ at the
British Book Awards. Elif Shafak was appointed President of the Royal Society
of Literature in 2025. Her books have sold several million copies worldwide.