Klik op een omslag om naar Google Boeken te gaan.
Bezig met laden... The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club) (origineel 2023; editie 2023)door Abraham Verghese (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkThe Covenant of Water door Abraham Verghese (2023)
Bezig met laden...
Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This is a must-read. I'm not sure I've ever read something so beautifully written that spans generations and cultures. And I thought I knew what was coming at the end. I didn't. If you only read one book this year, read this one. ( ) A very well written book. After finishing this and jumping to my next read really emphasized for me how good a writer Verghese is. The book follows 3 generations of an Indian family through all their hardships and generally very little good happens for these people. Yes we all die, but this book dwelled on the tragedies of each generation, their family members and friends. Outside of Big Ammachi no one dies of old age. Although Big Ammachi lived a long life, it was a hard life that had her living through every family tragedy. The other families in this book (that come together in the end) have more than their fair share of life tragedies too from leprosy, a long family line of brain tumors, being disfigured in a fire and having a loved one die in the same fire, drownings after drownings, and it goes on. There really weren't many pages to make you smile, just sad, sadder and saddest. Life is hard but even the most tragic characters have a day or two to make you smile. All that sadness and still it was a good read.
Water affects a family’s fate in this enthralling epic from the physician-author, set across three generations...This is a novel – a splendid, enthralling one – about the body, about what characters inherit and what makes itself felt upon them. It is the body that contains ambiguities and mysteries. As in his international bestseller Cutting for Stone, Verghese’s medical knowledge and his mesmerising attention to detail combine to create breathtaking, edge-of-your-seat scenes of survival and medical procedures that are difficult to forget. Tenderness permeates every page, at the same time as he is ruthless with the many ways his characters are made vulnerable by simply being alive....The Covenant of Water contains a larger question of community and belonging, one that feels most important in these days of escalating political wars and tensions: is it possible to be fragile and wounded, and still necessary and loved? The answer is rendered with care by a writer who looks at the world with a doctor’s knowing, merciful gaze. As much as any moral reckoning or catastrophic plot point, this is why literature, in all its comforting and challenging forms, matters. PrijzenOnderscheidingenErelijsten
"From 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. The 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. 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. Imbued with humor, deep emotion, and the essence of life, it is one of the most masterful literary novels published in recent years"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
Actuele discussiesGeenPopulaire omslagen
Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
Ben jij dit?Word een LibraryThing Auteur. |