The Covenant of Water
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The Covenant of Water
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial new epic of love, faith and medicine, set in Kerala, South India.
Book Hero Magic formatted this description to make it easier to read. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! DescriptionThe Covenant of Water is Oprah's Book Club Pick and an instant New York Times bestseller. It is also the subject of a six-part Super Soul podcast series hosted by Oprah Winfrey and is one of Barack Obama's best books of 2023. The book is the winner of the Viking Award for Fiction with a Sense of Place.
"One of the best books I've read in my entire life. It's epic. It's transportive... It was unputdownable!" says Oprah Winfrey on OprahDaily.com.
Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water follows a family in southern India that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning – and in Kerala, water is everywhere. At the turn of the century, a twelve-year-old girl grieving the death of her father is sent by boat to her wedding, where she will meet her forty-year-old husband for the first time.
From this poignant beginning, the young girl and future matriarch, known as Big Ammachi, will witness unthinkable changes at home and at large over the span of her extraordinary life, full of the joys and trials of love and the struggles of hardship.
A shimmering evocation of a lost India and of the passage of time itself, The Covenant of Water is a hymn to progress in medicine and to human understanding, and a humbling testament to the hardships undergone by past generations for the sake of those alive today. Imbued with humour, deep emotion, and the essence of life, it is one of the most masterful literary novels published in recent years.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781804710456
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 07 March 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Grove Press
Edition: Main
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 43.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 501g
Pages: 736
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About the Author
Abraham Verghese is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the author of books including My Own Country and The Tennis Partner. His most recent book, Cutting for Stone, spent 107 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and sold more than 1.5 million copies in the U.S. alone. It was translated into more than twenty languages and is being adapted for film by Anonymous Content. Verghese was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2016, has received five honorary degrees, and lives and practices medicine in Stanford, California where he is the Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
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