02955cam a2200361 i 45000010011000000030008000110050017000190080041000360100015000770200031000920200028001230350041001510400008001920420008002000430021002080820028002291000038002572450057002952500043003522640035003953000030004303360026004603370028004863380027005145201728005416500022022696500022022916510028023136510032023416550031023736550019024047760170024231347783965MeVbMML20230712150207.0221212s2023    nyub          000 f eng    a2022058850  a9780802162175q(hardcover)  a0802162177q(hardcover)  a(OCoLC)1347783965z(OCoLC)1373767424  cAJM  apcc  aa-ii---ae-uk-st00a813/.6223/eng/202212121 aVerghese, Abraham,d1955-eauthor14aThe covenant of water :ba novel /cAbraham Verghese  aFirst Grove Atlantic hardcover edition 1aNew York :bGrove Press,c2023  a724 pages :bmap ;c24 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  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. The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major word-of-mouth bestseller Cutting for Stone, which has sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States alone and remained on the New York Times bestseller list for over two years. 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"--cProvided by publisher 0aFamiliesvFiction 0aDrowningvFiction 0aKerala (India)vFiction 0aGlasgow (Scotland)vFiction 7aHistorical fiction.2lcgft 7aNovels.2lcgft08iOnline version:aVerghese, Abraham, 1955-tCovenant of water.bFirst Grove Atlantic hardcover editiondNew York : Grove Press, 2023z9780802162182w(DLC)  2022058851