Elif Shafak & Rob Macfarlane | There are Rivers in the Sky
Recorded: Tue 17 Sep 2024
Duration: 1 hr
Elif Shafak & Rob Macfarlane | There are Rivers in the Sky
One Off Event - Sept 2024 (audio only)
A new novel from internationally best-selling author and activist, Elif Shafak, is always a moment for celebration.
There Are Rivers in the Sky is the story of one lost poem, two great rivers and three remarkable lives – all connected by a single drop of water. This rich, sweeping novel spans centuries, continents, and cultures, entwined by rivers, rains and waterdrops.
In the ruins of Nineveh, that ancient city of Mesopotamia, there lies hidden in the sand fragments of a long-forgotten poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh.
In Victorian London, an extraordinary child is born at the edge of the dirt-black Thames.
In 2014 Turkey, Narin, a Yazidi girl living by the River Tigris, waits to be baptised with water brought from the holy site of Lalish in Iraq.
In 2018 London, broken-hearted Zaleekhah, a hydrologist, moves to a houseboat on the Thames to escape the wreckage of her marriage.
In conversation with Robert Macfarlane
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