About this Event
Join us for an in-person event with award winning authors Anne Berest & Claire Berest for the release of their new book Gabriële. Joining Anne & Claire in conversation is Fiction Editor of the Yale Review Adam Dalva. This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street.
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Like Anne Berest’s The Postcard, Gabriële is a propulsive, unputdownable true novel based on well-documented facts and family history. Written by Anne together with her sister, Claire, Gabriële is exuberant and daring as it tells the story of one of France’s most remarkable women and an affair that triggered a revolution. A book about love and creativity with a bold question at its heart: what connection exists between new ways of loving and living and new ways of thinking and creating?
This is the story of three young people who changed the world.
The year is 1908, at the height of the Belle Époque, and a brilliant, young French woman named Gabriële, recently 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 ways of living and thinking. Not long after, Gabriële meets Marcel, another young artist, five years her junior. Soon, Francis, Marcel, and Gabriële are all joined in a fervent, complex relationship the fruits of which will redefine the avant-garde.
As the Belle Epoque gives way to rebellion and revolution, and the world descends into the devastation of World War I, Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp, and Gabriele Buffet remain tied together in an evolving bond that seems to mirror the changes in the world around them.
Moving between Paris, Zurich, Spain, Saint-Tropez, and New York, Gabriële is as uninhibited, intimate, dynamic, brilliant and unforgettable as its central character, the mercurial, pioneering Gabriële Buffet.
Photo credit: Marthe Le More
Anne Berest’s first novel to appear in English, The Postcard (Europa, 2023), was a national bestseller, a Library Journal, NPR, and TIME Best Book of the Year, a Vogue Most Anticipated Book of the Year, and winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize. It was described as “stunning” by Leslie Camhi in The New Yorker, as a “powerful literary work” by Julie Orringer in The New York Times Book Review, and as “intimate, profound, essential” in the pages of ELLE magazine. Berest lives in Paris.
Claire Berest is the author of seven novels and two works of nonfiction. Her 2019 bestseller about the painter Frida Kahlo, Rien n’est noir, won the ELLE Readers Grand Prize, and a movie adaptation is currently in development by Netflix. Her recent novels include The Thickness of a Hair (2023) and Artifices (Mountain Leopard Press, 2024). She lives in Paris.
Photo credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Adam Dalva’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The New York Review of Books. He is a Contributing Fiction Editor of the Yale Review and serves on the board of the National Book Critics Circle.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Strand Book Store, 828 Broadway, New York, United States
USD 13.61 to USD 34.51
