Where The Water Held The Sky
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General FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781918674095
Publisher: Good Reach Publishing
Published: Apr 1 2026
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Before the concrete. Before the maps that lied. There was the Covenant.
For millennia, the people of the Lake Chad Basin lived by a sacred covenant with the water. Then came the shadow of cold iron and straight lines. When a traditional fisherman pulls a foreign metal surveyor's pole from his nets, it signals the arrival of a colossal dam-a promise of progress that will chain the river and shatter a civilization. Amidst a devastating drought, a forbidden bond forms between Issa, a fisherman's son, and Zara, a daughter of the Kuri cattle nobility. As their world breaks, Zara flees north carrying their unborn child, while Issa remains to expose the deliberate, profitable murder of the lake.
Years later, Dr. Amara Hassan, a brilliant Sorbonne-educated hydrologist, returns to the dying basin hunting for the father she never knew. Guided by a cryptic Kuri horn carving, Amara uncovers a hidden island sanctuary where the ancient Way of the Water still thrives. Armed with explosive evidence of a systemic crime, she faces a devastating choice. Will she seek public vengeance for her murdered father, or will she protect the last surviving seeds of her people's future?
Perfect for fans of Barbara Kingsolver and Amitav Ghosh, Where the Water Held the Sky is a haunting, lyrical epic about the cost of progress, the weight of memory, and the endurance of a covenant that no wall can truly break
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