Elif 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 Halld r Laxness International Literature Prize for her contribution to 'the renewal of the art of storytelling.'
It will make you think, cry, rage – and hope. It is Elif Shafak at
her best
*The New Statesman*
Gloriously expansive and intellectually rich... a magnificent
achievement
*The Spectator*
Richly evocative. A fascinating stream of storytelling.
*Financial Times*
Engrossing. I turned the pages hungrily, carried by Shafak’s
energetic prose and confident that it was heading towards a
coherent and rewarding ending. As ever, Shafak did not
disappoint.
*I Paper*
An absorbing novel. Shafak is a novelist whose interest in mapping
the intricately related world and its history goes beyond literary
device.
*Guardian*
Make place for Elif Shafak on your bookshelf. Make place for her in
your heart too. You won't regret it
*Arundhati Roy*
It will surprise no one that this is a brutal, elegant and
incredible book. Amazing what Elif Shafak has done here - again!
Magic.
*Evie Wyld*
An odyssey, an epic, a lament, and a tale of redemption, There are
Rivers in the Sky is a clarion call to honor the elemental forces
that shape our memories, our histories, and our world. In short, a
masterpiece.
*Ruth Ozeki*
A book that is astonishing, ingenious and beautiful. A modern
classic. Elif Shafak is one of the great writers of our time
*Peter Frankopan*
A 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 Paull*
A great, sweeping, enthralling novel - Elif Shafak's narrative
vision is as remarkable and astonishing as ever. Wonderful.
*Will Boyd*
Literature on a grand scale, mythic and timeless
*Nadifa Mohamed*
There are Rivers in the Sky is an enchanting epic, told through the
vantage of single raindrop, where the sacred mysteries of water,
science, and poetry collide. In this gorgeous and riverine novel,
water is poetry, water is memory. This is a love song to the
keepers of our stories and histories, a resounding tribute to the
wise women who know the poetry of our rivers. Elif Shafak is one of
them—a master storyteller whose prose thrums with such gorgeous
details and propulsive spirit, flowing with a keen-eyed wisdom that
only she could conjure. I came away feeling restored
*Safiya Sinclair*
Elif 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 Nguyen*
From 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 Kitamura*
Elif Shafak's beautiful and moving new novel bears the reader along
on its marvellous currents. Here, rivers twine with other rivers
and lives with other lives across centuries and cultures, as the
fate of a single drop of water weaves an intricate tapestry of love
and loss
*Robert Macfarlane*
Intricate, exhilarating storytelling that is a poetic reminder of
how connected we are to one another and to the past.
*Tracy Chevalier*
A great epic novel, as swift as a torrent, as deep as an ocean.
Elif Shafak at the height of her powers, sweeping us off our
feet.
*Leila Slimani*
One of the best writers in the world today
*Hanif Kureishi*
Wide-ranging, eloquent and lavishly detailed, There are Rivers in
the Sky expertly draws its various narratives to a powerful
climax
*Abdulrazah Gurnah*
There's an elegance to Shafak's storytelling that always draws me,
but it is her grit and substance that held me to the last page.
Wonderful.
*Bonnie Garmus*
A single raindrop links three narrative threads: Victorian London,
where Arthur is obsessed with a lost poem after a visit to the
British Museum; the River Tigris in 2014 as Narin flees war with
her grandmother; and London in 2018 through the eyes of hydrologist
Zaleekhah
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One lost poem, two great rivers, three vivid characters from
different cultures and times are all united in the ever-changing
fate of a single raindrop as it journeys from Victorian London to
modern day Turkey in this evocative, immersive epic
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A 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 Beard*
Bright, vivid and timeless like rivers.
*Philippa Gregory*
Elif Shafak is a unique and powerful voice in world literature
*Ian McEwan*
Shafak makes a new home for us in words
*Colum McCann*
A writer of important, beautiful, painful, truthful novels
*Marian Keyes*
Glorious, a journey across nature and history, memory and life, by
our finest weaver of tales
*Philippe Sands*
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