A drop of water that contains multitudes
‘There are Rivers in the Sky’ is a vast, ambitious tale spanning countries, cultures, continents and centuries
22 August 2024 - 05:00
From Mesopotamia to London, from the Tigris to the Thames, from antiquity to the 19th century and into the present day, one raindrop is the unifying force and an enduring presence throughout Elif Shafak’s latest novel There are Rivers in the Sky.
“The year is sometime in the 640s BCE; and this ancient region, which is lush with perfumed gardens, bubbling fountains and irrigation canals, but which will be forgotten and dismissed by future generations as an arid desert and abject wasteland, is Mesopotamia.”..
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