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03919cam a2200673 i 4500 001 491D8B68CF3111EE9084F518253FDB2A 003 SILO 005 20240219081507 008 221212t20232023nyuab b 000 f eng 010 $a 2022058850 020 $a 0802162177 020 $a 9780802162175 035 $a (OCoLC)1347783965 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d ZVR $d OJ4 $d VP@ $d MTG $d CNCAR $d JTH $d CASUM $d TXSCH $d INR $d FHP $d GK8 $d YU6 $d AU@ $d AUM $d LKC $d JYJ $d OCLCO $d CDS $d OCLCO $d GYG $d CUS $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk-st $a e-uk-st 050 00 $a PS3622.E744 $b C68 2023 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23/eng/20221212 100 1 $a Verghese, Abraham, $d 1955- $e author. $4 aut 245 14 $a The covenant of water : $b a novel / $c Abraham Verghese. 250 $a First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition, first edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Grove Press, $c 2023. 300 $a 724 pages : $b illustrations, map ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 722-724). 520 $a "From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Families $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Drowning $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Kerala (India) $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Glasgow (Scotland) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Drowning. 650 12 $a Family 650 22 $a Drowning 650 6 $a Familles $v Romans, nouvelles, etc. 650 6 $a Noyade $v Romans, nouvelles, etc. 651 6 $a Kerala (Inde) $v Romans, nouvelles, etc. 650 6 $a Noyade. 650 7 $a FICTION / Literary. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a FICTION / World Literature / India. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a FICTION / Family Life. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a FICTION / Medical. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Drowning. $2 fast 650 7 $a Families. $2 fast 650 7 $a Drowning $v Fiction. $2 sears 651 7 $a Kerala (India) $v Fiction. $2 sears 651 7 $a Glasgow (Scotland) $v Fiction. $2 sears 653 0 $a US & CAN historical fiction 655 0 $a Historical fiction. 655 2 $a Fictional Work 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 fast 655 7 $a Novels. $2 fast 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Romans. $2 rvmgf 776 08 $i Online version: $a Verghese, Abraham, 1955- $t Covenant of water. $b First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition $d New York : Grove Press, 2023 $z 9780802162182 $w (DLC) 2022058851 941 $a 1 $n 1 952 $l VXPE964 $d 20240219084221.0 $n 17 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=491D8B68CF3111EE9084F518253FDB2A 994 $a C0 $b IOZInitiate Another SILO Locator Search