'There Are Rivers In The Sky' by Elif Shafak - Signed & Exclusive Edition - Pub. August 8th

Signed and exclusive independents edition with additional material from Elif Shafak - Hardback

This is the story of one lost poem, two great rivers, and three remarkable lives –
all connected by a single drop of water.

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.
In 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: Nineveh and Its Remains.

In 2014 Turkey, Narin, a ten-year-old Yazidi girl, waits to be baptised in the
waters of the River Tigris. The ceremony is cruelly interrupted, and soon Narin
and her grandmother must journey across war-torn lands in the hope of finding
the sacred valley of their people.

In 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.

A dazzling feat of storytelling from one of the greatest writers of our time, Elif
Shafak’s There are Rivers in the Sky is a rich, sweeping novel that spans
centuries, continents and cultures, entwined by rivers, rains, and waterdrops:
‘Water remembers. It is humans who forget.’