TY  - BOOK
AU  - Verghese, Abraham,
TI  - The covenant of water
SN  - 9781804710456
U1  - 813/.6 23/eng/20221212
PY  - 2024///
CY  - London
PB  - Grove Press UK
KW  - Families
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Drowning
KW  - Fathers and sons
KW  - Mothers and daughters
KW  - Surgeons
KW  - Kerala (India)
KW  - Glasgow (Scotland)
N2  - "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"
ER  -