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Author:

Verghese, Abraham, 1955- author.

Title:

The covenant of water : a novel / Abraham Verghese.

Edition:

Large print edition.

Publisher:

Thorndike Pressa part of Gale, a Cengage Company,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

pages cm.

Subject:

Large type books.
Drowning--Fiction.
Families--India--Fiction.
Kerala (India)--History--20th century--Fiction.
Glasgow (Scotland)--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.
Large print books.

Summary:

"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 thesake of those alive today. It is one of the most masterful literary novels published in recent years"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Thorndike Press large print top shelf

ISBN:

9798885793377 : HRD

LCCN:

2023026618

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