The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

ISBN: 9781804710432 / 1804710431 - The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese. Published by Grove Press, 2023. Softcover. Used, Very Good condition. 724 pp.

Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, this masterful literary novel 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.

A shimmering evocation of a lost 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 hardships undergone by past generations for the sake of those alive today.

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