There Are Rivers in the Sky
One drop of water links Victorian London, a Yazidi girl in 2014 Iraq and a hydrologist on the Thames, with Gilgamesh running somewhere underneath.
A single drop of water connects Victorian London, a Yazidi girl in 2014 Iraq, and a hydrologist on the Thames, with the Epic of Gilgamesh running underneath. Shafak writes about water, memory and erasure across three timelines that turn out to be one.
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Maria Popova
In a passage from her altogether wonderful novel There Are Rivers in the Sky (public library), Turkish writer Elif Shafak offers a taxonomy of motives for hate
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