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The Covenant of Water: An Oprah’s Book Club Selection
The Covenant of Water: An Oprah’s Book Club Selection
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The Covenant of Water is a novel by Indian author Chetan Bhagat that follows a family in southern India and explores the themes of love, hardship, and the passage of time. Oprah Winfrey has selected it as her book club pick, and it has been praised for its epic scope and transportive quality. The book is set in 1900 and follows a twelve-year-old girl who is sent by boat to her wedding, where she meets her forty-year-old husband for the first time. Over the course of her life, she witnesses unthinkable changes at home and in the world, and the book is a hymn to progress in medicine and human understanding.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 736 pages
Publication date: 07 March 2024
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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.
Weight: 494g
Dimension: 129 x 197 x 49 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781804710456
Edition number: Main
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