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The Covenant of Water

The Covenant of Water

The Covenant of Water
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The Covenant of Water

by Verghese, Abraham

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0802162177
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9780802162175
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Grove Press, 2023. Hardcover. New/New. New! A stunning epic of love, faith, and medicine, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret. Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India's Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of 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 from Kerala's long-existing Christian community, 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 unforgettable new 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. Imbued with humor, deep emotion, and the essence of life, it is one of the most masterful literary novels published in recent years.

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Bookseller
Arundel Books of Seattle US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
623630
Title
The Covenant of Water
Author
Verghese, Abraham
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
New
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New
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ISBN 10
0802162177
ISBN 13
9780802162175
Publisher
Grove Press
Date Published
2023
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