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001			on1427308395
003			OCoLC
005			20240703161823.0
008			240319s2024 enk 000 f eng d
020			_a9781804710456 _q(paperback)
020			_a1804710458
029	0		_aNLGGC _b442277458
035			_a(OCoLC)1427308395
040			_aNLGGC _bdut _erda _cNLGGC _dOCLCQ
082	0	4	_a813/.6 _223/eng/20221212
100			_aVerghese, Abraham, _d1955- _955188
245	1	4	_aThe covenant of water / _cAbraham Verghese.
260			_aLondon : _bGrove Press UK, _c2024.
300			_a724 p. _c20 cm.
520	2		_a"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"
650		0	_aFamilies _vFiction. _9128
650		0	_aDrowning _vFiction. _944605
650		0	_aFathers and sons _vFiction. _912870
650		0	_aMothers and daughters _vFiction. _92809
650		0	_aSurgeons _vFiction. _95476
651		0	_aKerala (India) _vFiction. _955189
651		0	_aGlasgow (Scotland) _vFiction. _97437
942			_2ddc _cFIC
948			_hHELD BY NZWMT - 3 OTHER HOLDINGS
999			_c49907 _d49907