The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese, 2023
A Kerala family saga where water, faith and medicine bind three generations, and a boy who cannot swim grows up beside a river that shapes them all.
Abraham Verghese
Abraham Verghese was born in Addis Ababa to Indian parents and trained as a doctor; his novels draw on his medical life and his Kerala roots.
Feels like family, tenderness and time.
The water you step into is never only yours.
The water she first stepped into minutes ago is long gone and yet it is here, past and present and future inexorably coupled, like time made incarnate. This is the covenant of water: that they’re all linked inescapably by their acts of commission and omission, and no one stands alone. Books by Abraham Verghese
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