{"product_id":"there-are-rivers-in-the-sky","title":"There Are Rivers in the Sky","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy:\u003c\/strong\u003e Elif Shafak\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublished by Random House, 2025-07-01\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;From the Booker Prize finalist, author of\u0026lt;i\u0026gt; The Island of Missing Trees\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt;, 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\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;In 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 \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Epic of Gilgamesh\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt;, that would infuse the existence of two rivers and bind together three lives. \u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;In 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: \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Nineveh and Its Remains.\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;In 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. \u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;In 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. \u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;A dazzling feat of storytelling, \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;There Are Rivers in the Sky\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt; 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47085138444457,"sku":"PHBK-9780593687567","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/9899\/1785\/files\/9865463482399.jpg?v=1779806864","url":"https:\/\/myti.com\/products\/there-are-rivers-in-the-sky","provider":"Myti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}