The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese · 2023
A multigenerational saga set in Kerala, South India, spanning 1900 to 1977, following a family marked by a mysterious condition. Verghese brings the compassion of a physician and the eye of a painter to this immersive story of love, medicine, and the body's vulnerability. Shortlisted for major prizes worldwide.
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Verghese the surgeon keeps interrupting Verghese the novelist: every few chapters another procedure gets lovingly walked through, scrub to suture. Across more than seven hundred pages the saga sags through its middle decades, and the ending ties three generations of mystery into a bow so neat it squeaks. Goodness abounds; almost nobody is permitted to be small.
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