What if revolutions in art and society began with a revolution in love? 

Written by Anne Berest (THE POSTCARD) and her sister, Claire Berest, GABRIËLE is a bold, immersive “true novel” about desire, creativity and the radical reimagining of how to live. 

Paris, 1908. At the height of the Belle Époque, Gabriële Buffet --- a brilliant young musician fresh out of Europe’s most elite conservatory --- meets Francis Picabia, a charismatic and explosive Spanish painter. Their intense love affair plunges them into a Paris alive with artistic experimentation and social rebellion. Soon after, Gabriële meets Marcel Duchamp, who is younger than Picabia and Gabriële, brilliant and enigmatic. Before long, the three have embarked on a passionate and unconventional relationship that will define their personal stories --- and in the process reshape modern art. 

As Europe moves from exuberance to upheaval, and World War I looms, Gabriële, Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp and their milieu challenge every convention: about marriage, sexuality, authorship and artistic freedom. Moving between Paris, New York, Zurich, Berlin, Barcelona, London and Saint-Tropez, the novel asks a question that feels urgently contemporary: Can new ways of loving and being in the world create new ways of thinking?

At once intimate and sweeping, GABRIËLE restores a pioneering woman to the center of a story long told through men, inviting readers to reconsider genius, collaboration and the invisible labor behind cultural revolutions.