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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, whe...

Eines der besten Bücher, die ich je gelesen habe - und ich lese, seit ich drei bin.« Oprah Winfrey Kerala, um 1900: Mariamma ist zwölf, als sie ihr Zuhause verlässt, um bei ihrem neuen Mann in Parambil zu leben, inmitten von Flüssen und Kanälen, Palmen und Jackfruchtbäumen. Sie vermisst ihre Mutter, und ihr Mann scheint sich kaum für sie zu interessieren. Doch bald findet sie in ihrem fünfjährigen Stiefsohn Jojo einen Gefährten, der nicht vo...

AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB SELECTION'One of the best books I've read in my entire life. It's epic. It's transportive . . . It was unputdownable!' Oprah Winfrey, OprahDaily.comSpanning 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, griev...

The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel from Abraham Verghese, the author of the widely acclaimed and beloved book Cutting for Stone, published in 2009. Cutting for Stone sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States alone and spent 107 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.Verghese’s readers have been waiting for this book for over ten years, and there is a large and captive audience ready for this new multigenerational ...

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial new epic of love, faith and medicine, set in Kerala, South India.

Named a Most Anticipated Book by the Washington Post, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Oprah Daily, Publishers Weekly (Top 10), Literary Hub and BookPageSpanning 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 fa...

The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel from Abraham Verghese, the author of the widely acclaimed and beloved book Cutting for Stone, published in 2009. Cutting for Stone sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States alone and spent 107 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.Verghese's readers have been waiting for this book for over ten years, and there is a large and captive audience ready for this new multigenerational ...

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Suresh, Abraham Verghese, Otis Warren, Leana S. Wen, Charlotte Yeh

A story about male friendship and drug addiction, told by a doctor who watched his young friend and student, a brilliant tennis player, destroy his life with cocaine.

Rückkehr nach Missing" erzählt die unvergessliche Geschichte einer großen Liebe: zu den Menschen und zur Medizin. »Das ist das Wichtigste, das ich Shiva schuldig bin: diese Geschichte zu erzählen. Meine Mutter, Schwester Mary Joseph Praise, ist davor zurückgescheut, sie auszuplaudern, und mein Vater, der furchtlose Thomas Stone, ist vor ihr weggelaufen. Ich musste sie Stück für Stück zusammensetzen. Nur das Erzählen kann den Riss heilen, der m...

An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for StoneWhen Abraham Verghese, a physician whose marriage is unraveling, relocates to El Paso, Texas, he hopes to make a fresh start as a staff member at the county hospital. There he meets David Smith, a medical student recovering from drug addiction, and the two men begin a tennis ritual that allows them...

Marion and Shiva, born in Ethiopia in the 1950s, are the illicit twins of an Indian nun and British doctor. With wildly different temperaments, they grow up in a country on the brink of revolution, until a betrayal splits them apart. But fate will bring them together again. Spans the 1940s to the present day, from a convent in India to a cargo ship, an operating theatre in Ethiopia to a hospital in the Bronx. An exotic saga full of forbidden l...

Mientras la India celebra su flamante independencia, la abadesa de un convento de carmelitas en Madrás hace realidad uno de sus sueños más audaces: enviar a África a dos jóvenes monjas enfermeras con la noble misión de transmitir el amor de Cristo ayudando a mitigar el dolor de los que sufren. Siete años más tarde, en el modesto hospital Missing de Adis Abeba nacen dos varones gemelos, Marion y Shiva Stone. Lo extraordinario del caso es que su...

Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles--and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined. Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother's death and their father's disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection an...

Ein meisterhaftes Epos über Familie, Intimität und die wundersame Schönheit, die darin liegt, andere zu heilen.Äthiopien in den sechziger Jahren: Marion und Shiva Stone, eineiige Zwillingsbrüder, wachsen als Waisenkinder in einem Missionshospital in Addis Abeba auf, der Kaiserstadt Haile Selassies. Ihre Mutter, eine schöne indische Nonne, starb bei ihrer Geburt, ihr Vater, ein britischer Chirurg, verschwand spurlos. Marion und Shiva sind unzer...

By the bestselling author of Cutting for Stone, a story of medicine in the American heartland, and confronting one's deepest prejudices and fears.Nestled in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, the town of Johnson City had always seemed exempt from the anxieties of modern American life. But when the local hospital treated its first AIDS patient, a crisis that had once seemed an "urban problem" had arrived in the town to stay. Working in J...

A memoir which also serves as a study of the nature of male friendship and drug addiction.

A stunning debut novel from the author of "My Own Country": an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, fathers and sons, doctors and patients, exile and home.

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