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Copyright © 2024 by Elif Shafak

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Permissions: Some images © The British Museum; and the Epic of Gilgamesh translation copyright © Andrew George, 1999.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Shafak, Elif, [date] author.

Title: There are rivers in the sky / Elif Shafak.

Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.

Identifiers: LCCN 2024001958 (print) | LCCN 2024001959 (ebook) | ISBN 9780593801710 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780593801727 (ebook)

Subjects: LCGFT: Novels.

Classification: LCC PS3619.H328 T45 2024 (print) | LCC PS3619.H328 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6—dc23/eng/20240117

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2024001958

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2024001959

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Title: There are rivers in the sky : a novel / Elif Shafak.

Names: Shafak, Elif, [date] author.

Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20240302761 | Canadiana (ebook) 20240302796 | ISBN 9781039055865 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781039055872 (EPUB)

Subjects: LCGFT: Novels.

Classification: LCC PS3619.H323 T54 2024 | DDC 813/.6—dc23

Ebook ISBN 9780593801727

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

Cover images: (background) The Palaces of Nimrud Restored, 1853, by Austen Henry Layard, Bridgeman Images; (river) Ann Udod/Shutterstock

Cover design by Linda Huang

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