{"product_id":"there-are-rivers-in-the-sky-hardcover-1","title":"There Are Rivers in the Sky - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElif Shafak\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Booker Prize finalist, author of\u003ci\u003e The Island of Missing Trees\u003c\/i\u003e, an enchanting new tale about three characters living along two great rivers, all connected by a single drop of water. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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 Prize \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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: \u003ci\u003eNineveh and Its Remains. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA dazzling feat of storytelling, \u003ci\u003eThere Are Rivers in the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e entwines these outsiders with a single drop of water, a drop which remanifests across the centuries. Both 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.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eELIF SHAFAK\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning British-Turkish author of a dozen novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Island of Missing Trees\u003c\/i\u003e, shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award, and\u003ci\u003e 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World\u003c\/i\u003e, shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Her work has been translated into fifty-six languages. She holds a PhD in political science and has taught at universities in Turkey, the U.S. and the UK. She lives in London and is an honorary fellow at Oxford University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 464\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 9.29 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 20, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47659671060669,"sku":"9780593801710","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/Nx0aEiDW_19780593801710_ca891b71-3636-46e1-89ae-223a85ee5201.webp?v=1784296739","url":"https:\/\/boundigo.com\/products\/there-are-rivers-in-the-sky-hardcover-1","provider":"Boundigo Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}