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 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 marrying Francis
Gabriële meets Marcel another young artist five years her junior. Soon Francis Marcel and
Gabriële 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 Gabriële is as audacious uninhibited and
unforgettable as its central character the mercurial pioneering Gabriële Buffet.
