Abraham Verghese
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
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...
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2009
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of The Covenant of Water: A beautifully written, page-turning family saga of Ethiopia and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. • “Filled with mystical scenes and deeply felt characters.... Verghese is something of a magician as a novelist.” —USA Today
Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful...
Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2023
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An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from Abraham Verghese, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for Stone and The Covenant of Water, an Oprah's Book Club Pick.
"Heartbreaking. . . . Indelible and haunting, [The Tennis Partner] is an elegy to friendship found, and an ode to a good friend lost."—The Boston Globe
When Abraham
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Publisher
Narrativa/Salamandra
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
782 pages : map ; 23 cm
Description
"El pacto del agua sigue a una familia que sufre una afliccion peculiar: en cada generacion, al menos una persona muere ahogada, y en Kerala el agua esta en todas partes. A principios del siglo XX, una nina de doce anos es enviada en barco para contraer matrimonio con un hombre de cuarenta al que no conoce. A partir de entonces, la joven y futura matriarca, conocida como Big Ammachi, sera testigo de cambios impensables: una historia llena de alegrias,...