The Twelve Rooms Of The Nile

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Before she became the nineteenth-century's heroine, before he had written a word of Madame Bovary, Florence Nightingale & Gustave Flaubert traveled up the Nile at the same time. In reality, they never met. But in The Twelve Rooms of the Nile, they ignite a friendship marked by intelligence, humor, & a ravishing tenderness that will alter both their destinies. On the surface, Nightingale & Flaubert have little in common. She is a woman with radical ideas about society & God, naive in the ways of men. He is a notorious womanizer, involved with innumerable prostitutes. But both are at painful crossroads in their lives & burn with unfulfilled ambition. In Shomer's deft hands, the two unlikely soulmates come together to share their darkest torments & fervent hopes. Brimming with adventure & the sparkling sensibilities of the two travelers, this mesmerizing debut novel offers a luminous combination of gorgeous prose & wild imagination, all of it colored by the opulent tapestry of mid-nineteenth century Egypt.