Join Robert Macfarlane and Elif Shafak for a deeply personal and provocative journey inviting us to reimagine the nature of rivers, stories, and life itself.
‘Water remembers. It is humans who forget.’
Renowned not only in her native Turkey and her adopted home of Britain but across the globe, Elif Shafak is an author whose novels succeed where so many others fail: at once enchanting the spirit and the senses, stirring the heart, and making us think deeply about the great themes of human life.
Our greatest living nature writer, Robert Macfarlane is both the author of prize-winning bestsellers including Underland, Landmarks, and The Old Ways, and an artistic polymath whose collaborators include many of the most distinguished artists, musicians, and poets of our time.
Now Elif and Robert come together for a one-of-a-kind meeting to explore the magic and mystery of rivers – from the dirt-black Thames of Victorian London to the wounded lagoons of Southern India.
Elif’s new novel There Are Rivers in the Sky tells a spanning centuries and continents entwined by rivers, rains, and waterdrops. Robert’s new book Is a River Alive? reveals a single, transformative idea: that rivers are not mere matter for human use but living beings – who should be recognized as such in both imagination and law.
Don’t miss this extraordinary and unique conversation between two of our greatest living writers. This is a magical and radical night that will make you rethink what you think you know about rivers and about the nature of life.
