{"product_id":"there-are-rivers-in-the-sky-isbn-9780593687567","title":"There Are Rivers in the Sky","description":"\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. • \"Make place for Elif Shafak on your bookshelf [and] in your heart. You won't regret it.\"—Arundhati Roy, winner of the Booker Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 \u003ci\u003eEpic of Gilgamesh\u003c\/i\u003e, that would infuse the existence of two rivers and bind together three lives. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA dazzling feat of storytelling, \u003ci\u003eThere Are Rivers in the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e 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.”\"An odyssey, an epic, a lament, and a tale of redemption, \u003ci\u003eThere Are Rivers in the Sky \u003c\/i\u003eis a clarion call to honor the elemental forces that shape our memories, our histories, and our world. \u003cb\u003eIn short, a masterpiece\u003c\/b\u003e.\"—\u003cb\u003eRuth Ozeki, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Book of Form and Emptiness\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere Are Rivers in the Sky \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eexplodes into a roaring journey through ecology and memory\u003c\/b\u003e… genuinely moving.”\u003ci\u003e—\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Think \u003ci\u003eCloud Atlas\u003c\/i\u003e, but with a single drop of water connecting all the stories.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eParade Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Shafak weaves together\u003cb\u003e a dazzling feat \u003c\/b\u003eof storytelling that explores the pain of exile and the power of human resilience.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOprah Daily\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Flows like rivers from ancient Nineveh to present-day London with characters of the distant past as bright and vivid as those of today.” \u003cb\u003e—Philippa Gregory, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Other Boleyn Girl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Elif Shafak discovers the epic in the tiny, the global in the local, the love in the loss, the history in the momentary.\u003c\/b\u003e An extraordinary novel, fresh and cleansing, like the rain bouncing off the metal roof of our lives.” \u003cb\u003e—Colum McCann, author of \u003ci\u003eLet the Great World Spin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A brilliant, unforgettable novel, which raises big ideas of 'who owns the past' with nuance and complexity…. both natural and wonderfully unexpected.\" \u003cb\u003e—Mary Beard, author of \u003ci\u003eSPQR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"From its bravura opening through to its final pages,\u003ci\u003e There Are Rivers in the Sky \u003c\/i\u003eis \u003cb\u003ea dazzling achievement\u003c\/b\u003e. Shafak’s imagination is a wonder.\"—\u003cb\u003eKatie Kitamura, author of \u003ci\u003eIntimacies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Literature on a grand scale, mythic and timeless.\" \u003cb\u003e—Nadifa Mohamed, author of\u003ci\u003e The Fortune Men\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"There's an elegance to Shafak's storytelling that always draws me, but it is her grit and substance that held me to the last page. Wonderful.\"\u003cb\u003e —Bonnie Garmus, author of \u003ci\u003eLessons in Chemistry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Elif Shafak is a unique and powerful voice in world literature.\" \u003cb\u003e—Ian McEwan, author of \u003ci\u003eAtonement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cb\u003eWide-ranging, eloquent and lavishly detailed\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThere Are Rivers in the Sky \u003c\/i\u003eexpertly draws its various narratives to a powerful climax.\" \u003cb\u003e—Abdulrazak Gurnah, author of \u003ci\u003eAfterlives\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Elif Shafak's beautiful and moving new novel bears the reader along on its marvelous currents…. as the fate of a single drop of water weaves an intricate tapestry of love and loss.\"\u003cb\u003e—Robert MacFarlane, author of \u003ci\u003eUnderland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cb\u003eGloriously expansive and intellectually rich\u003c\/b\u003e.... a magnificent achievement.\"\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003e The Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e (UK)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Spellbinding.... Like water itself, \u003ci\u003eThere Are Rivers in the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e seeps into the cracks and crevasses of our humanity, unlocking a sense of wonder.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e— BookPage\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cb\u003eA multi-layered marvel\u003c\/b\u003e.... \u003cb\u003eI turned the pages hungrily\u003c\/b\u003e, carried by Shafak’s energetic prose.... As ever, Shafak did not disappoint.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eMax Liu\u003ci\u003e, I Paper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e“This is a love song to the keepers of our stories and histories\u003c\/b\u003e....Elif Shafak is one of them—a master storyteller whose prose thrums with such gorgeous details and propulsive spirit, flowing with a keen-eyed wisdom that only she could conjure. I came away feeling restored.\"\u003cb\u003e—Safiya Sinclair, author of\u003ci\u003e How to Say Babylon\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A book that is astonishing, ingenious and beautiful. \u003cb\u003eA modern classic\u003c\/b\u003e. Elif Shafak is one of the great writers of our time.\"—\u003cb\u003ePeter Frankopan, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Earth Transformed\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Elif Shafak approaches the world with grace, lyricism, and courage…. Her words and works—compelling and provocative—leave us in a space of light, a clearing from where we can see this world anew. \"\u003cb\u003e—Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sympathizer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Intricate, exhilarating storytelling that is a poetic reminder of how connected we are to one another and to the past.\"—\u003cb\u003eTracy Chevalier, author of\u003ci\u003e Girl With a Pearl Earring\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eELIF SHAFAK 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. ","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233773891813,"sku":"NP9780593687567","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780593687567.jpg?v=1767742390","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/there-are-rivers-in-the-sky-isbn-9780593687567","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}