Michael Arditti

After the Flood: There Are Rivers in the Sky, by Elif Shafak, reviewed

Water – essential to life and civilisation, but also a potentially destructive force – is the theme linking three disparate strands in Shafak’s magnificent new novel

Noah sending the raven and dove from the Ark in an 11th-century mosaic in St Mark’s Basilica, Venice. [Getty Images]
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  • There Are Rivers in the Sky

    Elif Shafak

    Viking, pp. 496, £18

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