The Covenant of Water
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"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. It is one of the most masterful literary novels published in recent years"-- Provided by publisher.
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Thorndike Press large print top shelf
PUBLISHED
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2023.
Year Published: 2023
Description: 897 p.
Language: English
Format: Large Type
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9798885793377
SUBJECTS
Families -- Fiction.
Drowning -- Fiction.
Kerala (India) -- Fiction.
Glasgow (Scotland) -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.