{"product_id":"there-are-rivers-in-the-sky-copy","title":"There Are Rivers in the Sky PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Shafak, Elif\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNineveh and Its Remains. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA dazzling feat of storytelling, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere Are Rivers in the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\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.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47498184589557,"sku":null,"price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0544\/5094\/6247\/files\/Screenshot2025-04-18at12.32.14PM.png?v=1744993994","url":"https:\/\/nookbooksbvi.com\/products\/there-are-rivers-in-the-sky-copy","provider":"NookBVI","version":"1.0","type":"link"}