| Edition |
Primera edición. |
| Description |
782 pages ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Translation of: The covenant of water. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
"Spanning 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. 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 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Language |
Text in Spanish. Texto en español. |
| Subject |
Drowning -- Fiction.
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Families -- India -- Fiction.
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Kerala (India) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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Glasgow (Scotland) -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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Novels.
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| Added Title |
Covenant of water. Spanish
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Pacto del agua : the covenant of water |
| ISBN |
9798890980151 (paperback) |
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