THERE ARE RIVERS IN THE SKY

Description

With his evil silences, he ruled the city of Nineveh, situated on the bank of the River Tigris, in the ancient land of Mesopotamia. And there he had built a great library, which was to crumble with the end of his reign. Out of these ruins, however, issued a poem-a very important poem-the Epic of Gilgamesh, one which would permit the existence of two rivers and couple three lives.

Arthur was born in 1840 London by the stinking, sewage-filled River Thames. Abusive and alcoholic father, mentally ill mother; that is what Arthur inherited from his parents. Out of all these deprivations, only Arthur’s brilliant memory will serve as a way out. Provided that he would utilize his gift for good, maybe he could get himself placed as an apprentice at the leading publisher. The slum exists for quite a while for Arthur soon. And in this very new world, one book catches his interest: Nineveh and Its Remains.

In 2014, Turkey, Narin is an especially beautiful ten-year-old Yazidi girl. She is diagnosed with a very rare, newly-described disorder that soon will render her deaf. Her grandmother has long intended to baptize her in a sacred Iraqi temple. But now that ISIS is making its way closer and closer, their ancestral land along the Tigris is on the verge of being destroyed.

Newly separated, a hydrologist, Zaleekah runs to a houseboat in Thames London in 2018 for a place to stay. Orphaned and raised by her financially well-off uncle, the last thing Zaleekah had been contemplating was taking her life; until a curious book from the past changed everything.

A dazzling feat of storytelling, There Are Rivers in the Sky weaves these outsiders together with a single drop of water, a drop which remanifests across the centuries. Harbinger of life and death, rivers—the Tigris and the Thames—transcend history, transcend fate: “Water remembers. It is humans who forget.”