AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB SELECTION
'One of the best books I've read in my entire life. It's epic. It's transportive . . . It was unputdownable!' Oprah Winfrey, OprahDaily.com
Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water
follows a family in southern India 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, 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 poignant beginning, the young girl and future
matriarch - known as Big Ammachi - will witness unthinkable changes at
home and at large over the span of her extraordinary life, full of the
joys and trials of love and the struggles of hardship.
A shimmering evocation of a lost 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 hardships undergone by past generations for
the sake of those alive today. Imbued with humour, deep emotion and the
essence of life, it is one of the most masterful literary novels
published in recent years.
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