Set in India between the years 1900 and 1977, “The Covenant of Water” traces a family down the generations, whose lives and history are characterized by death by drowning. Throughout, we follow the life of a woman — first as a child when she meets her adult husband and later as a matriarch — who will come to be known as Big Ammachi. But the book is about more than her story; it’s also about the passing of time, medicine and humanity itself.
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Abraham Verghese | Physician, author and professor of the theory and practice of medicine and vice chair of education at Stanford University Medical School. His latest book is “The Covenant of Water” [Amazon BookShop].
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