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4350958There Are Rivers in the Skyhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/there-are-rivers-in-the-sky-9780593914519/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/4028900/image.jpg?v=638543686851570000484484MXNPenguin Random House Audio Publishing GroupInStock/Audiolibros/<p>From the Booker Prize finalist, author of <em>The Island of Missing Trees</em>, an enchanting new tale about three characters living along two great rivers, all connected by a single drop of water.</p><p>"Make place for Elif Shafak on your bookshelf. Make place for her in your heart too. You wont regret it."Arundhati Roy, winner of the Booker Prize</p><p>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.</p><p>In 1840 London, Arthur is born beside the stinking, sewage-filled River Thames. With an abusive, alcoholic father and a mentally ill mother, Arthurs only chance of escaping destitution is his brilliant memory. When his gift earns him a spot as an apprentice at a leading publisher, Arthurs world opens up far beyond the slums, and one book in particular catches his interest: <em>Nineveh and Its Remains.</em></p><p>In 2014 Turkey, Narin, a ten-year-old Yazidi girl, is diagnosed with a rare disorder that will soon cause her to go deaf. Before that happens, her grandmother is determined to baptize her in a sacred Iraqi temple. But with the rising presence of ISIS and the destruction of the familys ancestral lands along the Tigris, Narin is running out of time.</p><p>In 2018 London, the newly divorced Zaleekah, a hydrologist, moves into a houseboat on the Thames to escape her husband. Orphaned and raised by her wealthy uncle, Zaleekah had made the decision to take her own life in one month, until a curious book about her homeland changes everything.</p><p>A dazzling feat of storytelling, <em>There Are Rivers in the Sky</em> entwines these outsiders with a single drop of water, a drop which remanifests across the centuries. Both a source of life and harbinger of death, riversthe Tigris and the Thamestranscend history, transcend fate: Water remembers. It is humans who forget.</p>...4287501There Are Rivers in the Sky484484https://www.gandhi.com.mx/there-are-rivers-in-the-sky-9780593914519/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/4028900/image.jpg?v=638543686851570000InStockMXN99999DIAudiolibro20249780593914519_W3siaWQiOiJlZWFlNjAyOS1iOWNlLTRmYmUtOGUyZi00ZTViNDg5OWYwZDMiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjQ4NCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjAsInNlbGxpbmdQcmljZSI6NDg0LCJpbmNsdWRlc1RheCI6dHJ1ZSwicHJpY2VUeXBlIjoiV2hvbGVzYWxlIiwiY3VycmVuY3kiOiJNWE4iLCJmcm9tIjoiMjAyNS0wNy0wMVQwMDowMDowMFoiLCJyZWdpb24iOiJNWCIsImlzUHJlb3JkZXIiOmZhbHNlLCJpc0VsaWdpYmxlRm9yQ3JlZGl0VHJpYWwiOnRydWUsImNyZWRpdFB1cmNoYXNlUHJpY2UiOjF9XQ==9780593914519_<p>From the Booker Prize finalist, author of <em>The Island of Missing Trees</em>, an enchanting new tale about three characters living along two great rivers, all connected by a single drop of water.</p><p>"Make place for Elif Shafak on your bookshelf. Make place for her in your heart too. You wont regret it."Arundhati Roy, winner of the Booker Prize</p><p>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.</p><p>In 1840 London, Arthur is born beside the stinking, sewage-filled River Thames. With an abusive, alcoholic father and a mentally ill mother, Arthurs only chance of escaping destitution is his brilliant memory. When his gift earns him a spot as an apprentice at a leading publisher, Arthurs world opens up far beyond the slums, and one book in particular catches his interest: <em>Nineveh and Its Remains.</em></p><p>In 2014 Turkey, Narin, a ten-year-old Yazidi girl, is diagnosed with a rare disorder that will soon cause her to go deaf. Before that happens, her grandmother is determined to baptize her in a sacred Iraqi temple. But with the rising presence of ISIS and the destruction of the familys ancestral lands along the Tigris, Narin is running out of time.</p><p>In 2018 London, the newly divorced Zaleekah, a hydrologist, moves into a houseboat on the Thames to escape her husband. Orphaned and raised by her wealthy uncle, Zaleekah had made the decision to take her own life in one month, until a curious book about her homeland changes everything.</p><p>A dazzling feat of storytelling, <em>There Are Rivers in the Sky</em> entwines these outsiders with a single drop of water, a drop which remanifests across the centuries. Both a source of life and harbinger of death, riversthe Tigris and the Thamestranscend history, transcend fate: Water remembers. It is humans who forget.</p>...9780593914519_Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Groupaudiolibro_9780593914519_9780593914519Elif ShafakInglésMéxico2024-08-20T00:00:00+00:00NoMINUTE2024-08-20T00:00:00+00:00Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group