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**From the *New York Times* -bestselling author of *Cutting for Stone* comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, and following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret***The Covenant of Water* is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major word-of-mouth bestseller *Cutting for Stone* , which has sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States alone and remained on the *New York Times* bestseller list for over two years.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...

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It is typically read by working professionals who need an authoritative practice reference.

Common subject areas: medicine, law, business, engineering.

Author
Abraham Verghese
Publisher
Grove Atlantic
Language
ES
Category
medicine
Subjects
Medical, Fiction, World Fiction
Rating
4.7 / 5 (13,476 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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