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03235aam a22006138i 4500 001 AF7767CA3E5511EE9D75128132ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230819010021 008 230609s2023 meu d 000 1 eng 010 $a 2023026618 020 $a 9798885793377 : HRD 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 050 10 $a PS3622.E744 $b C68 2023b 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23/eng/20230609 100 1 $a Verghese, Abraham, $d 1955- $e author. 245 14 $a The covenant of water : $b a novel / $c Abraham Verghese. 250 $a Large print edition. 263 $a 2310 264 1 $a Waterville, Maine : $b Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, $c 2023. 300 $a pages cm. 490 0 $a Thorndike Press large print top shelf 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Large type books. 650 0 $a Drowning $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Families $z India $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Kerala (India) $x History $y 20th century $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Glasgow (Scotland) $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Large print books. $2 lcgft 941 $a 21 945 $a lpt 952 $l HPPD845 $d 20240509010435.0 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409045029.0 952 $l NEPC953 $d 20240318130855.0 952 $l YLPC314 $d 20240214012513.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20240127012632.0 952 $l KWPE446 $d 20240126010406.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20240125012159.0 952 $l JBPC145 $d 20240117181308.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20240106010807.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20240106010209.0 952 $l YTPG232 $d 20240104011148.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20231221010050.0 952 $l WKPE185 $d 20231208010943.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20231205010609.0 952 $l JCPC145 $d 20231121134137.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20231107011101.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20231102013756.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20231102011130.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20231102010457.0 952 $l ZIPA815 $d 20231031162149.0 952 $l CMPE792 $d 20230819010109.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=AF7767CA3E5511EE9D75128132ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search