THERE ARE RIVERS IN THE SKY

Plongez dans le nouveau roman, hommage à l'épopée de Gilgamesh et aux quatre éléments, de l'auteur de The Island of Missing Trees et de 10 minutes 38 seconds in This Strange World.

In the ruins of Nineveh there lies hidden in the sand fragments of a long-forgotten poem: the Epic of Gilgamesh. In Victorian London, Arthur is born at the edge of the dirt-black Thames and his only chance of escaping poverty is his brilliant memory. His world opens up with one book soon sending him across the seas: Nineveh and Its Remains. Turkey, 2014: Narin waits to be baptised with water brought from the holy sit of Lalish in Iraq. But the ceremony is cruelly interrupted, and soon Narin and her grandmother must journey across war-torn lands in the hope of reaching the sacred valley of their people. London, 2018: Zaleekhah, a hydrologist, moves to a houseboat on the Thames to escape the wreckage of her marriage. She foresees a life drained of all love and meaning until an unexpected connection to her homeland changes everything.

Elif Shafak - There are Rivers in the sky - 9780241988749 - 14,90 €