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There Are Rivers in the Sky

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內容簡介 水是生生不息記憶這是一首失落的詩，兩條偉大的河流和三個非凡的人生的故事閱讀艾莉芙．夏法克展演史詩小說英國土耳其裔作家夏法克的小說以一滴雨展現水、科學和詩歌的奧妙。故事始於尼尼微亞述國王的圖書館，《吉爾伽美什史詩》流入兩條長河，串連三個人生。1840代，倫敦出版社的貧困男孩學徒；2014年，伊斯蘭國威脅下逐漸失聰的雅茲迪族女童；2018年，泰晤士河畔意圖自殺的水文學家—水是生命泉源，也是死亡預兆，更跨越歷史與命運。The breathtaking new novel from the Booker-shortlisted, bestselling author of The Island of Missing Trees and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World*****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 baptised with water brought from the holy sit 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 rich, sweeping novel that spans centuries, continents and cultures, entwined by rivers, rains, and waterdrops:‘Water remembers. It is humans who forget.’

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各界推薦 ReviewMake place for Elif Shafak on your bookshelf. Make place for her in your heart too. You won't regret it ― Arundhati RoyIt will surprise no one that this is a brutal, elegant and incredible book. Amazing what Elif Shafak has done here - again! Magic. -- Evie WyldA book that is astonishing, ingenious and beautiful. A modern classic. Elif Shafak is one of the great writers of our time -- Peter FrankopanA deep and satisfying sweep of a story combining intellectual pleasures with a transformative empathy. Particular, universal, with head and with heart in perfect balance, this is surely a landmark novel. -- Laline PaullA great, sweeping, enthralling novel - Elif Shafak's narrative vision is as remarkable and astonishing as ever. Wonderful. -- Will BoydLiterature on a grand scale, mythic and timeless -- Nadifa MohamedElif Shafak approaches the world with grace, lyricism, and courage. Confronting societies riven by conflicts over gender, religion, sexuality, nationalism, memory, ideology, and more, Shafak wields the novel’s artistic power to cut through complacency and orthodoxy with ruthlessness and beauty. Her words and works―compelling and provocative―leave us in a space of light, a clearing from where we can see this world anew. -- Viet Thanh NguyenFrom its bravura opening through to its final pages, There are Rivers in the Sky is a dazzling achievement. Shafak’s imagination is a wonder: bold, capacious, beautiful and wise. -- Katie KitamuraA brilliant, unforgettable novel, which raises big ideas of 'who owns the past' with nuance and complexity. Elif Shafak ties together diverse time periods and places in a way that seems both natural and wonderfully unexpected. -- Mary BeardAnother mystical novel from Elif Shafak, in which time dissolves in the timeless water of two rivers and the characters who live beside them. The story flows like the rivers from ancient Nineveh to present-day London with characters of the distant past as bright and vivid as those of today. -- Philippa GregoryElif Shafak is a unique and powerful voice in world literature -- Ian McEwanShafak makes a new home for us in words -- Colum McCannA writer of important, beautiful, painful, truthful novels -- Marian Keyes

作者介紹

作者介紹 Elif ShafakElif Shafak is an award-winning British Turkish novelist whose work has been translated into fifty-five languages. The author of nineteen books, twelve of which are novels, she is a bestselling author in many countries around the world. Shafak's latest novel, The Island of Missing Trees, was a top ten Sunday Times bestseller, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and the Women's Prize. Her previous novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the RSL Ondaatje Prize; longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award; and chosen as Blackwell's Book of the Year. She is a Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature. Shafak was awarded the Halldór Laxness International Literature Prize for her contribution to 'the renewal of the art of storytelling.'

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最佳賣點 : The breathtaking new novel from the Booker-shortlisted, bestselling author of The Island of Missing Trees.