There Are Rivers in the Sky Elif Shafak

There Are Rivers in the Sky Elif Shafak

There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak is a sweeping, lyrical novel that connects three lives across time and place:

• Arthur, a Victorian boy with an extraordinary memory in 19th-century London.

• Narin, a Yazidi girl in 2014 Turkey, fleeing violence while carrying her people’s traditions.

• Zaleekah, a grieving hydrologist on the Thames in 2018 London.

Their stories are tied together by water—the Tigris and the Thames—and by the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh. Shafak explores memory, loss, survival, and the idea that water carries history across generations.