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The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese - Indian BOTM Aug-Sept-Oct
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I read 52 pages of the book so far. I didn't find it interesting enough yet. I will patiently read another 100-150 pages. It's too early to call it quits. I have always struggled with the starting of most books. I hope it gets better for me. That being said, I am excited about this book. I lived in Kerala for 10 years and I am able to relate with this book. Though I am not good at Malayalam, it's my 4th language, I can speak to some extent. So the Malayalam words in the book didn't pose much of a problem with me while reading.
I finished this recently. I was back and forth with it for a good portion of the book as I was having a hard time understanding why I needed to know the varying characters. However, I loved Cutting for Stone so much and waited for this so long that I had to stick with it. So glad I did... it did all come together in the end!
The book is slowly starting to get better. I am curious about the mysterious deaths running in the family. Currently on chapter 10. I will be reading this book slowly. Busy these days.
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, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret
Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on 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 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, 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 hardships 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.