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Verghese, Abraham, 1955-

The covenant of water / Abraham Verghese. - London : Grove Press UK, 2024. - 724 p. 20 cm.

"Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water follows a family 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 over the span of her extraordinary life, full of joy and triumph as well as hardship and loss, her faith and love the only constants. A shimmering evocation of a bygone 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 difficulties undergone by past generations for the sake of those alive today"

ISBN: 9781804710456 1804710458

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Families--Fiction.
Drowning--Fiction.
Fathers and sons--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Surgeons--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Kerala (India) --Fiction.
Glasgow (Scotland)--Fiction.

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.6