02827cam a2200277 4500 792416363 TxAuBib 20230506120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781705070239 170507023X 6a6d412c-af83-417a-a1d2-982bc10e840e OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9575425 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Verghese, Abraham. The Covenant of Water [Libby]. Recorded Books, Inc., 2023. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 859MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 859MB. Fiction. Literature. HTML: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<br /> 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.<br /> Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on 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<br /> twelve-year-old girl from Kerala's 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, Big Ammachi—will witness unthinkable<br /> 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.<br /> 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 humanunderstanding, and a humbling testament to the hardships undergone by past generations for the sake of those alive today. Imbued with<br /> humor, deep emotion, and the essence of life, it is one of the most masterful literary novels published in recent years. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-05-06 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6a6d412c-af83-417a-a1d2-982bc10e840e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6a6d412c-af83-417a-a1d2-982bc10e840e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)