There Are Rivers in the Sky A novel

Elif Shafak

eBook - 2024

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. Make place for her in your heart too. You won't regret it."—Arundhati Roy, winner of the Booker PrizeIn 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 R...iver 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...

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Published
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language
English
Main Author
Elif Shafak
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Format
Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
Kindle Book
ASINB0CNRBBL1R
Release Date8/20/2024
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9780593801727
Release Date8/20/2024