{"title":"Elif Shafak","description":"ELIF SHAFAK is an award-winning British-Turkish author of a dozen novels, including The Island of Missing Trees, shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award, and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World, shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Her work has been translated into fifty-six languages. She holds a PhD in political science and has taught at universities in Turkey, the U.S. and the UK. She lives in London and is an honorary fellow at Oxford University.","products":[{"product_id":"there-are-rivers-in-the-sky-paperback","title":"There Are Rivers in the Sky - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Booker Prize finalist, author of\u003ci\u003e The Island of Missing Trees\u003c\/i\u003e, 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\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\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 \u003ci\u003eEpic of Gilgamesh\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. 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