There are rivers in the sky
(2024)
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
FICTION/SHAFAK,E
2 Holds on 1 Copy
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024
EDITION
First American edition
DESCRIPTION
443 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780593801710, 0593801717 :, 0593801717, 9780241435021, 0241435021, 9780593801710
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"Sweeping across centuries, and stretching from Mesopotamia to London, this is an enchanting new novel by Booker Prize finalist Elif Shafak that conjures a trio of characters living in the shadow of one of the greatest epic poems (The Epic of Gilgamesh) of all time"--
In the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but ruthless, built a great library that would crumble with the end of his reign. From its ruins, however, emerged a poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh, that would infuse the existence of two rivers and bind together three lives