There are Rivers in the Sky

<p><b>THE TOP FIVE <i>SUNDAY TIMES</i> BESTSELLER</b><br> <br> <b>This is the story of one lost poem, two great rivers, and three remarkable lives - all connected by a single drop of water.</b><br> <br> <b>*****</b><br> <br> In the ruins of Nineveh, that ancient city of Mesopotamia, there lies hidden in the sand fragments of a long-forgotten poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh.<br> <br> In Victorian London, an extraordinary child is born at the edge of the dirt-black Thames. When his brilliant memory earns him a spot as an apprentice at a printing press, the world opens up far beyond the slums and across the seas.<br> <br> In 2014 Turkey, Narin, a Yazidi girl living by the River Tigris, waits to be baptised. The ceremony is cruelly interrupted, and soon she and her grandmother must journey across war-torn lands in the hope of reaching the sacred valley of their people.<br> <br> In 2018 London, broken-hearted Zaleekhah, a hydrologist, moves to a houseboat on the Thames to escape the wreckage of her marriage - until an unexpected connection to her homeland changes everything.<br> <br> <b>A dazzling feat of storytelling from one of the greatest writers of our time that spans centuries, continents and cultures, entwined by rivers, rains, and waterdrops.</b><br> <br> <b>*****</b><br> <br> <b>'</b><b>Elif Shafak is a unique and powerful voice in world literature' Ian McEwan</b><br> <br> 'An extraordinary novel, fresh and cleansing, like the rain bouncing off the metal roof of our lives' Colum McCann<br> <br> <b>'Make place for Elif Shafak on your bookshelf. Make place for her in your heart too. You won't regret it' Arundhati Roy</b><br> <br> 'One of the best writers in the world today' Hanif Kureishi<br> <br> <b>'A brilliant, unforgettable novel' Mary Beard</b><br> <br> Elif Shafak, a <i>Nielsen</i> bestseller of 2023</p>