There are rivers in the sky

Author's name: Elif Shafak

A lost poem, two great rivers, and three extraordinary lives, all linked by a single drop of water. In the ruins of Nineveh, fragments of a long-forgotten poem lie buried beneath the sand. An only child of his time is born in nineteenth-century London, on the bank of the murky black river, with no chance of escaping poverty except his amazing memory. When Arthur works in a publishing house and printing press, his world opens up away from the slums, and he finds himself on an overseas journey because of one book: Nineveh and its ruins. In Turkey, a Yazidi girl lives by the Tigris, waiting to be baptized with water from the sacred valley in Iraq. Zuleikha, the hydrologist, moves to a houseboat on the Thames to escape the wreckage of her marriage.
The novel comes to us rich and comprehensive, in a dazzling narrative achievement spanning centuries, continents, and cultures, intertwined with rivers, rain, and drops of water. "Water does not forget, but forgetting is a human trait."