There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak

There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif ShafakThe new novel from the Booker shortlisted, internationally bestselling author of The Island of Missing Trees and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World. 'A storm is approaching Nineveh, the sky swollen with impending rain. One of the clouds approaching the world's largest and wealthiest city, built on the banks of the river Tigris, is bigger and darker than the others and more impatient. It floats suspended above a majestic building adorned with

and make indelible new friends

She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella

She is a writer and a teacher

dating and friendship

and the shattered remnants of a once-great magical army

from breeding ideal indoor pet cats to development of humane and targeted tools to control feral cats

which describe and illuminate each artistic project in the festival

Despite her skills

having appeared in over eighty film and television shows

humanity and the transformative power of challenging expeditions to help us grow wiser

The world is no longer connected

Scottish and blue all over