From the New York Times-bestselling creator of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of affection, religion, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family looking for the solutions to a abnormal mystery
Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is ready in Kerala, on India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar anguish: in every generation, at the least one person dies by using drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere.
At the flip of the century, a twelve-year-vintage girl from Kerala’s Christian community, grieving the dying of her father, is despatched by using boat to her wedding, where she can meet her 40-year-old husband for the primary time.
From this unforgettable new starting, the younger girl—and future matriarch, Big Ammachi—will witness unthinkable changes over the span of her terrific life, complete of joy and triumph as well as complication 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 development in medicine and to human information, and a humbling testomony to the hardships gone through by way of past generations for the sake of those alive these days. Imbued with humor, deep emotion, and the essence of existence, it’s far one of the most masterful literary novels published in recent years.
