The covenant of water : a novel
(Book)

Paperback published in the UK in 2024.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 722-724).

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes this Oprah's Book Club pick, a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, from 1900 to 1977, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret-- at least one person in every generation dies by drowning-- and in Kerala, water is everywhere...-- Provided by publisher.

"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. Imbued with humor, deep emotion, and the essence of life, it is one of the most masterful literary novels published in recent years."--Book jacket.