There are Rivers in the Sky
- Author Elif Shafak
- Narrator Olivia Vinall, Elif Shafak
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date 8 August 2024
- Run Time 16 hours and 49 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Fiction: dual or multiple timelines, Historical fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging.
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This audiobook is read by Olivia Vinall, and Elif Shafak reads the Note to Reader at the end of the story.
The new novel from the Booker-shortlisted, internationally bestselling author of The Island of Missing Trees and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
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.
FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION
WINNER OF THE GORDON BOWKER PRIZE 2025
WINNER OF THE INAUGURAL GOOD HOUSEKEEPING GOOD BOOKS SPRING COLLECTION
‘Elif Shafak is a unique and powerful voice in world literature’ Ian McEwan
'Shafak makes a new home for us in words' Colum McCann
'One of the best writers in the world today' Hanif Kureishi
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| Author | Elif Shafak |
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| Narrator | Olivia Vinall, Elif Shafak |
| Duration | 16 hours and 49 minutes |
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| ISBN | 9780241996973 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Genre | Fiction: dual or multiple timelines, Historical fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging |
| Availability | AU, GB, IE |
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