PICKED BY OPRAH FOR THE BOOK CLUB AND AN IMMEDIATE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A breathtaking and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, is the latest work from the New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for Stone. It follows three generations of a family as they search for the answers to an odd truth.

"Among the finest works I've ever read. It's incredible. The effect is evocative. " I couldn't stop reading it!" Oprah Winfrey, OprahDaily.com

The long-awaited sequel to Cutting for Stone, which sold nearly two million copies in the United States independently and spent more than two years on the list of bestsellers of the New York Times, The Covenant of Water is written by the writer of the blockbuster Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese.

The Covenant of Water, which spans the years 1900 to 1977, is set in Kerala, on the Malabar Coast of South India, and follows all three generations of a family that experience a strange ailment: at least one submerged death every generation, and Kerala has plenty of water. The young girl—and eventual matriarch affectionately referred to as Big Ammachi"—will see unimaginable changes throughout the course of her exceptional life, brimming with joy and victory as well as pain and loss, with her trust and affection the only things that remain unchanged.

The Covenant of Water, a stunning depiction of a former India and of humanity itself, is both a modest respect for the sacrifices faced by previous generations for the advancement of those who are currently alive nowadays and a hymn to intellectual and medical progress. It is among the most accomplished recently published literary novels.