The Twelve Rooms of the Nile Author:Enid Shomer This ?mesmerizing new work of historical fiction? (The Miami Herald) imagines the deep friendship of Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert as they travel up the Nile.Before she became the nineteenth century?s greatest heroine, before he had written a word of Madame Bovary, Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert traveled down the Nile at t... more »he same time. But where history would have these two figures float right by one another, the award-winning writer Enid Shomer brings them together to ignite a passionate friendship that alters both their destinies. On the surface, Florence and Gustave have little in common. The daughter of a prominent English family, she is a woman with radical ideas about society and God, naïve in the ways of men. He is a notorious womanizer and patron of innumerable prostitutes. But both burn with unfulfilled ambition, and when they meet travelling up the Nile in 1850, the two assume a friendship marked by intelligence, humor, and ravishing tenderness. In the deft hands of Shomer, whose writing The New York Times has praised as ?beautifully cadenced, and surprising in its imaginative reach,? the unlikely soulmates come together to share their darkest torments and most fervent hopes. Brimming with adventure and the sparkling sensibilities of the two travelers, Twelve Rooms of the Nile offers a luminous combination of brilliant prose and wild imagination, utterly bringing to life the opulent tapestry of mid-nineteenth-century Egypt.« less
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