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Verghese, A, (Abraham), 1955-
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Drowning -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Glasgow (Scotland) -- Fiction.
India -- Fiction.
Kerala (India) -- Fiction.
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Verghese, A, (Abraham), 1955-
Drowning -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Glasgow (Scotland) -- Fiction.
India -- Fiction.
Kerala (India) -- Fiction.
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The covenant of water : a novel / Abraham Verghese.
by
Verghese, A, (Abraham), 1955-
Thorndike Press, 2023.
Call #:
LP
FICTION
VER
Subjects
Drowning --
Fiction
.
Families --
Fiction
.
Glasgow (Scotland) --
Fiction
.
India --
Fiction
.
Kerala (India) --
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9798885793377 (large print hc.)
Description:
897 p. (large print) : map ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
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 the sake of those alive today."--Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Historical
fiction
.
Literary
fiction
.
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