{"product_id":"20255951","title":"The Covenant Of Water: An Oprah's Book Club Selection","description":"\u003ch1\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ccenter\u003eThe Covenant Of Water: An Oprah's Book Club Selection\u003c\/center\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eINSTANT \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSUBJECT OF A SIX-PART SUPER SOUL PODCAST SERIES HOSTED BY OPRAH WINFREY \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of the best books I've read in my entire life. It's epic. It's transportive . . . It was unputdownable!' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eOprah Winfrey, OprahDaily.com\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpanning the years 1900 to 1977, \u003ci\u003eThe Covenant of Water\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA shimmering evocation of a lost India and of the passage of time itself, \u003ci\u003eThe Covenant of Water \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003cb\u003eSplendid, enthralling\u003c\/b\u003e...this is why literature, in all its comforting and challenging forms, matters' - Guardian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003cb\u003eMajestic\u003c\/b\u003e...life-affirming, compassionate, and gripping from start to finish' - Mail on Sunday\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003cb\u003eGrand, spectacular, sweeping and utterly absorbing\u003c\/b\u003e' - New York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003cb\u003eA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003en important book\u003c\/b\u003e for its efforts in documenting times and places most readers would be too young to have witnessed. It is also a tribute to the scientific progress that has made human lives healthier, and the sacrifices made by previous generations.' - Observer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003cb\u003eDeliciously inventive\u003c\/b\u003e.... Over the course of three generations, two seemingly disparate, deeply connected narratives unfold in an ode to India, family and medical marvels' - TIME magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An \u003cb\u003eimmense, immersive work\u003c\/b\u003e, brimming with interconnected storylines that meander and converge like great river tributaries . . . The novel encompasses \u003cb\u003eintense passion and tragedy\u003c\/b\u003e, as well as a medical mystery . . . An essential, even healing feat of imagination, a whole world to get lost in' - Los Angeles Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An \u003cb\u003eepic melodrama \u003c\/b\u003eof medicine' - Wall Street Journal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Verghese's novel traces a family's evolution from 1900 through the 1970s, with intimacy swept up into widescreen pageantry in the manner of 'Dr. Zhivago.' This grandly ambitious, impassioned work is a magnificent feat.' - Washington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Much will be written about Abraham Verghese's multigenerational South Indian novel in the coming months and years...Ever the skillful surgeon, Verghese threads meaningful connections between macrocosmic and microcosmic details so elegantly that they are often barely noticeable at first' - NPR.org\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Fourteen years in the making, Abraham Verghese's \u003ci\u003eThe Covenant of Water\u003c\/i\u003e was worth the wait . . . \u003cb\u003eA massive achievement\u003c\/b\u003e. Rarely can such an intricate story, following a dozen major characters over more than 70 years, be described as flying by, but this one does' - St Louis Post-Dispatch\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003cb\u003eWhat a joy\u003c\/b\u003e...to experience the exquisite, uniquely literary delight of all the pieces falling into place in a way one really did not see coming...\u003cb\u003eBy God, he's done it again.\u003c\/b\u003e' - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Verghese - who gifts the matriarch his mother's name and even some of her stories - illuminates colonial history, challenges castes and classism, and exposes injustices, all while spectacularly spinning \u003cb\u003ewhat will undoubtedly be one of the most lauded, awarded, best-selling novels of the year.\u003c\/b\u003e' - Booklist (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Verghese outdoes himself with this \u003cb\u003egrand and stunning\u003c\/b\u003e tribute to 20th-century India' - Publishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003cb\u003eA literary landmark\u003c\/b\u003e, a monumental treatment of family and country, as sprawling in scope as Edna Ferber's Giant . . . Writing with compassion and insight, Verghese creates distinct characters in Dickensian profusion, and his language is striking... 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