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Vuelve la aclamada Elif Shafak con una epopeya arrolladora que cabalga entre los siglos a través de tres personajes conectados por el poema más antiguo de todos los tiempos: Gilgamesh. En la antigua Nínive, a orillas del río Tigris, durante la época de mayor esplendor de Mesopotamia, el culto y despiadado rey Asurbanipal erigió una magnífica biblioteca para atesorar su preciada colección de tablillas, como las de La epopeya de Gilgamesh. El monarca está a punto de quemar vivo a su viejo maestro, aquel que le inculcó el amor por la poesía, pero que ha terminado por traicionarlo. Pronto el Imperio asirio se derrumbará y quedará sepultado. Este es el punto de partida de una novela extraordinaria e inolvidable en la que Elif Shafak, una voz única en toda la literatura mundial, consigue hilar con pericia la historia de tres personajes marginales cuyas vidas, desde el siglo VI antes de Cristo hasta nuestros días, permanecen enlazadas por una gota de agua que renace a lo largo de los ríos y los siglos.
This is the story of one lost poem, two great rivers, and three remarkable lives--all connected by a single drop of water. 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. Arthur's only chance of escaping poverty is his brilliant memory. When his gift earns him a spot as an apprentice at a printing press, Arthur's world opens up far beyond the slums, with one book soon sending him across the seas: 'Nineveh and its remains.' In 2014 Turkey, Narin, a Yazidi girl living by the River Tigris, waits to be baptized with water brought from the holy city of Lalish in Iraq. 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. In 2018 London, broken-hearted Zaleekhah, a hydrologist, moves to a houseboat on the Thames to escape the wreckage of her marriage. Zaleekhah foresees a life drained of all love and meaning--until an unexpected connection to her homeland changes everything. A dazzling feat of storytelling from one of the greatest writers of our time, Elif Shafak's 'There are rivers in the sky' is a novel that spans centuries, continents and cultures, entwined by rivers, rains, and waterdrops.