There are Rivers in the Sky - Elif Shafak

From the Booker-shortlisted, internationally bestselling author of The Island of Missing Trees and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. Winner of the Gordon Bowker Prize 2025, the Inaugural Good Housekeeping Good Books Spring Collection, and finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.

Genre: Historical fiction, contemporary fiction, political fiction

Pages: 496

Blurb:
There Are Rivers in the Sky is a rich, sweeping novel set between the 19th century and modern times, about love and loss, memory and erasure, hurt and healing, centred around three enchanting characters living on the banks of the River Thames and the River Tigris – their lives all curiously touched by the epic of Gilgamesh.