There Are Rivers in the Sky: A novel. Elif Shafak
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ISBN: 9780593687567 | 464 pages | 12 Mb
- There Are Rivers in the Sky: A novel
- Elif Shafak
- Page: 464
- Format: pdf, ePub, fb2, mobi
- ISBN: 9780593687567
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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From the Booker Prize finalist, author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about three characters living along two great rivers, all connected by a single drop of water. • "Make place for Elif Shafak on your bookshelf [and] in your heart. You won't regret it."—Arundhati Roy, winner of the Booker Prize In the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but ruthless, built a great library that would crumble with the end of his reign. From its ruins, however, emerged a poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh, that would infuse the existence of two rivers and bind together three lives. In 1840 London, Arthur is born beside the stinking, sewage-filled River Thames. With an abusive, alcoholic father and a mentally ill mother, Arthur’s only chance of escaping destitution is his brilliant memory. When his gift earns him a spot as an apprentice at a leading publisher, Arthur’s world opens up far beyond the slums, and one book in particular catches his interest: Nineveh and Its Remains. In 2014 Turkey, Narin, a ten-year-old Yazidi girl, is diagnosed with a rare disorder that will soon cause her to go deaf. Before that happens, her grandmother is determined to baptize her in a sacred Iraqi temple. But with the rising presence of ISIS and the destruction of the family’s ancestral lands along the Tigris, Narin is running out of time. In 2018 London, the newly divorced Zaleekah, a hydrologist, moves into a houseboat on the Thames to escape her husband. Orphaned and raised by her wealthy uncle, Zaleekah had made the decision to take her own life in one month, until a curious book about her homeland changes everything. A dazzling feat of storytelling, There Are Rivers in the Sky entwines these outsiders with a single drop of water, which remanifests across the centuries. A source of life and harbinger of death, rivers—the Tigris and the Thames—transcend history, transcend fate: “Water remembers. It is humans who forget.”
Book review of There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak - BookPage
In this spellbinding novel, a drop of water regenerates across continents and centuries, touching four lives linked by the Epic of Gilgamesh.
What Was Lost Still Remains: 'There Are Rivers in the Sky' by Elif .
In her stunning new novel, Elif Shafak ponders these questions in reference to Nisaba, the ancient Sumerian goddess of writing.
There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak | Good Reading
While her political and gender views strongly influence her fiction, in this book they don't detract from a compelling story told in the kind of evocative and .
There Are Rivers in the Sky: A novel (Hardcover) | Warwick's
Elif Shafak tackles the toxicity of human greed, cruelty, and survival through water.” — Kayleen Rohrer, InkLink Books, East Troy, WI .
There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak - California Review of Books
Her latest novel, There Are Rivers in the Sky, opens in Nineveh, on the east bank of the Tigris river, where a powerful monarch reigns over an opulent city.
There Are Rivers in the Sky: A novel | Revolution Books
From the Booker Prize finalist, author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about three characters living along two great .
There Are Rivers in the Sky: A novel (Hardcover)
An odyssey, an epic, a lament, and a tale of redemption, There Are Rivers in the Sky is a clarion call to honor the elemental forces that shape our memories.
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