The Covenant of Water

Resumen del libro

The Covenant of Water follows a family in southern India 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, 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 poignant beginning, the young girl and future matriarch - known as Big Ammachi - will witness unthinkable changes at home and at large over the span of her extraordinary life, full of the joys and trials of love and the struggles of hardship. A shimmering evocation of a lost 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 hardships undergone by past generations for the sake of those alive today.

Imbued with humour, deep emotion and the essence of life, it is one of the most masterful literary novels published in recent years.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Abraham Verghesex{0026}lt;/B nació en Adís Abeba en 1955. De padres indios, estudió Medicina en la India y Estados Unidos. Conocido por su innovador trabajo en la atención del sida y su defensa de la medicina de familia, ha publicado dos conmovedores testimonios relacionados con su profesión: x{0026}lt;I My Own Countryx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I The Tennis Partnerx{0026}lt;/I . Graduado en el Taller de Escritura Creativa de la Universidad de Iowa, Verghese es autor de x{0026}lt;I Hijos del ancho mundox{0026}lt;/I (Salamandra, 2010), una novela que ha vendido más de un millón y medio de ejemplares en Estados Unidos, se ha traducido a más de veinte idiomas y está en curso de adaptación a la gran pantalla por Anonymous Content. Sus ensayos y relatos han aparecido en x{0026}lt;I The New Yorkerx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I The New York Timesx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I The Atlantic Monthlyx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Esquirex{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Grantax{0026}lt;/I . En la actualidad, vive en Palo Alto (California), donde escribe, ejerce de médicoy enseña en la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de Stanford. Ex{0026}lt;I l pacto del agua x{0026}lt;/I (Salamandra, 2023) es su última novela.x{0026}lt;/P