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Spanning decades and continents - from revolutionary 19th-century France to Istanbul, Egypt, and Beirut - this novel reflects on creativity in times of political crisis and war, asking what literature can offer when the world feels broken. Bridging Western prose and Eastern poetry, it presents a vivid portrait of Gustave Flaubert, author of Madame Bovary, through the lives of the women, real and fictional, who shaped him.