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She is the recipient of the British Academy President’s Medal and Halldór Laxness International Literature Prize for her contribution to “the renewal of the art of storytelling” and has been awarded Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"there-are-rivers-in-the-sky","title":"There Are Rivers in the Sky","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Booker Prize finalist, author of\u003ci\u003e The Island of Missing Trees\u003c\/i\u003e, an enchanting new tale about three characters living along two great rivers, all connected by a single drop of water. - \"Make place for Elif Shafak on your bookshelf [and] in your heart. You won't regret it.\"--Arundhati Roy, winner of the Booker Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but ruthless, built a great library that would crumble with the end of his reign. 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