{"product_id":"there-are-rivers-in-the-sky-paperback-1","title":"There Are Rivers in the Sky - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSweeping across centuries, and stretching from Mesopotamia to London, this enchanting new novel by a Booker Prize finalist conjures a trio of characters living in the shadow of one of the greatest epic poems of all time.\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 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: \u003ci\u003eNinveveh and Its Remains. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 2014 Turkey, Narin, a ten-year-old Yazhidi 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, \u003ci\u003eThere Are Rivers in the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e 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":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101621719263,"sku":"9798217014378","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/UB2TrgIA8m9798217014378.webp?v=1781071843","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/there-are-rivers-in-the-sky-paperback-1","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}