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The covenant of water : a novel / Abraham Verghese.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780802162175
- ISBN: 0802162177
- Physical Description: 724 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2023.
- Copyright: ©2023
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| General Note: | Publisher, publishing date, and paging may vary. "Oprah's book club 2023"--Jacket. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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| Genre: | Historical fiction. Novels. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| North Kansas City Public Library | FICTION VERGHESE 2023 (Text) | 0001012513442 | Fiction New | Checked out | 05/03/2024 |
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