{"product_id":"the-covenant-of-water-a-novel-2","title":"The Covenant of Water A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * INSTANT \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER * SUBJECT OF A SIX-PART SUPER SOUL PODCAST SERIES HOSTED BY OPRAH WINFREY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom 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\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major word-of-mouth bestseller Cutting for Stone, which has sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States alone and remained on the New York Times bestseller list for over two years.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South 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 long-existing 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, known as 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA 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 difficulties undergone by past generations for the sake of those alive today. It is one of the most masterful literary novels published in recent years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"OUATB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48531926089983,"sku":"*R0096537*","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0487\/5550\/7364\/files\/16263083482473_7653cecf-7ad2-4062-b772-9cadaf5273cd.jpg?v=1778870673","url":"https:\/\/shop.onceuponatimebooks.com\/products\/the-covenant-of-water-a-novel-2","provider":"Once Upon a Time Books AR","version":"1.0","type":"link"}