Description: In excellent condition A great read! 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.
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Type: Novel
Book Title: Covenant of Water : a Novel
Number of Pages: 736 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: GROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
Item Height: 2.3 in
Topic: Sagas, Family Life, Medical, Literary
Publication Year: 2023
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 30.7 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Abraham Verghese
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
