{"title":"Elif Shafak","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"there-are-rivers-in-the-sky","title":"There are Rivers in the Sky","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe breathtaking new novel from the Booker-shortlisted, bestselling author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Island of Missing Trees\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e*****\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the story of one lost poem, two great rivers, and three remarkable lives – all connected by a single drop of water.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Victorian London, an extraordinary child is born at the edge of the dirt-black Thames. Arthur’s only chance of escaping poverty is his brilliant memory. When his gift earns him a spot as an apprentice at a printing press, Arthur’s world opens up far beyond the slums, with one book soon sending him across the seas: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNineveh and Its Remains\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 2014 Turkey, Narin, a Yazidi girl living by the River Tigris, waits to be baptised with water brought from the holy sit of Lalish in Iraq. The ceremony is cruelly interrupted, and soon Narin and her grandmother must journey across war-torn lands in the hope of reaching the sacred valley of their people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 2018 London, broken-hearted Zaleekhah, a hydrologist, moves to a houseboat on the Thames to escape the wreckage of her marriage. Zaleekhah foresees a life drained of all love and meaning – until an unexpected connection to her homeland changes everything.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA dazzling feat of storytelling from one of the greatest writers of our time, Elif Shafak’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThere are Rivers in the Sky\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a rich, sweeping novel that spans centuries, continents and cultures, entwined by rivers, rains, and waterdrops:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e‘Water remembers. It is humans who forget.’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e*****\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eElif Shafak is a unique and powerful voice in world literature’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eIan McEwan\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An extraordinary novel, fresh and cleansing, like the rain bouncing off the metal roof of our lives.' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eColum McCann\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Make place for Elif Shafak on your bookshelf. Make place for her in your heart too. 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When the world feels broken, how do we find the hope to carry on?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShafak takes readers on an extraordinary journey through time and space, from Flaubert's unusual childhood in a house that was part home, part hospital, part morgue, to nineteenth-century Paris during the Revolution, and onwards to Istanbul, Cairo, Palestine and Beirut. 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