There are rivers in the sky

Elif Shafak

In Victorian London, an exceptional child was born on the banks of the murky, black River Thames. When his keen memory earned him a job as an apprentice in a printing press, a world beyond the slums and beyond the seas opened up to him.

In 2014 Turkey, Narin, a Yazidi girl living on the banks of the Tigris River, awaits her baptism. In 2018 London, heartbroken hydrologist Zalikha moves to a houseboat on the Thames to escape the wreckage of her marriage—until an unexpected connection to her homeland changes everything. It's a dazzling feat of storytelling from one of the greatest writers of our time, one that spans centuries and continents. It's the story of a lost poem, two great rivers, and three remarkable lives—all connected by a single drop of water.