{"product_id":"there-are-rivers-in-the-sky-1","title":"There Are Rivers in the Sky","description":"From the Booker Prize finalist, author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about three characters living along two great rivers, all connected by a single drop of water. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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: Nineveh and Its Remains. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA dazzling feat of storytelling, There Are Rivers in the Sky 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.'","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":54840126013778,"sku":"9780593801710","price":28.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/bild_d8d357b8-1987-4c89-8d6d-6e83d92d93b2.jpg?v=1790346436","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/there-are-rivers-in-the-sky-1","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}