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May 2, 2023 · “The Covenant of Water” follows three generations of a close-knit and haunted family in southwestern India.
May 2, 2023 · Nominee for Best Historical Fiction (2023) 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.
May 2, 2023 · A dramatic, vividly detailed reconstruction of a little-known aspect of the Vietnam War. Share your opinion of this book. Three generations of a South Indian family are marked by passions and peccadillos, conditions and ambitions, interventions both medical and divine.
May 3, 2023 · ‘The Covenant of Water’ is a rich, heartfelt novel. A decade in the making, Abraham Verghese’s sweeping new book chronicles the evolution of a family in India that shares a dark secret ...
May 4, 2023 · NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with the author Abraham Verghese about his new novel The Covenant of Water in which a family in India is haunted by a medical mystery.
May 19, 2023 · The physician-author’s new book, “The Covenant of Water,” contains traces of his mother, his cousin and his own medical experience.
Apr 28, 2023 · Review: 'The Covenant of Water,' by Abraham Verghese FICTION: In this intimate, epic novel, three generations in a South Indian family live under a watery curse.
May 2, 2023 · The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese has an overall rating of Rave based on 18 book reviews.
May 2, 2023 · 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.
The marriage of Mariamma and the thamb’ran—the boss—turns out to be a happy one. He is a gentle, stoic giant who scrupulously avoids bodies of water, even though it may take him days to walk to a place he could have reached in a few hours by boat.
