Gabriele

Anne Berest, Claire Berest, Tina Kover

eBook - 2025

A May 2025 Indie Next List Great Read "Gabriële is a revealing, heartrending biographical novel about a complicated woman whose imprint on art history is undeniable."—Foreword Reviews The story of a passionate love affair that triggered a revolution. An atmospheric, exuberant novel from the best-selling author of The Postcard, Anne Berest, and her sister, Claire Berest, about love and sex, art and revolution, experimentation and creativity, and three young people who changed the world. The year is 1908, the height of the Belle Époque, and a brilliant, young French woman named Gabriële, 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... more