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There Are Rivers In The Sky (Paperback)
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There Are Rivers In The Sky (Paperback)
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This is the story of one lost poem, two great rivers, and three
remarkable lives – all connected by a single drop of water.
In the ruins of Nineveh, that ancient city of Mesopotamia, there lies
hidden in the sand fragments of a long-forgotten poem, the Epic of
Gilgamesh.
In Victorian London, an extraordinary child is born at the edge of the
dirt-black Thames. Arthur’s only chance of escaping poverty is his
brilliant memory. When his gift earns him a spot as an apprentice at a
printing press, Arthur’s world opens up far beyond the slums, with one
book soon sending him across the seas: Nineveh and Its Remains.
In 2014 Turkey, Narin, a Yazidi girl living by the River Tigris, waits
to be baptised with water brought from the holy sit of Lalish in Iraq.
The ceremony is cruelly interrupted, and soon Narin and her grandmother
must journey across war-torn lands in the hope of reaching the sacred
valley of their people.
In 2018 London, broken-hearted Zaleekhah, a hydrologist, moves to a
houseboat on the Thames to escape the wreckage of her marriage.
Zaleekhah foresees a life drained of all love and meaning – until an
unexpected connection to her homeland changes everything.
A dazzling feat of storytelling from one of the greatest writers of our
time, Elif Shafak’s There are Rivers in the Sky is a rich, sweeping
novel that spans centuries, continents and cultures, entwined by
rivers, rains, and waterdrops:
‘Water remembers. It is humans who forget.’
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