SELECCIÓN DEL CLUB DEL LIBRO DE OPRAH • ÉXITO INSTANTÁNEO EN LA LISTA DE LOS MÁS VENDIDOS DEL NEW YORK TIMES • TEMA DE UNA SERIE DE PODCASTS DE SEIS PARTES LLAMADA SUPER SOUL, PRESENTADA POR OPRAH WINFREY
Una magistral saga familiar ambientada en la India del siglo XX que ha cautivado al público y la crítica por el autor de
Hijos del ancho mundo
.
«Grandiosa, espectacular y arrolladora.»-
The New York Times
«Uno de los tres mejores libros que leído en toda mi vida. [...] Épico, emocionante, absorbente.»-
Oprah Winfrey
Incluido en los libros de ficción notables del
New York Times
de 2023
El pacto del agua
sigue a una familia que sufre una aflicción peculiar: en cada generación, al menos una persona muere ahogada, y en Kerala el agua está en todas partes. A principios del siglo XX, una niña de doce años es enviada en barco para contraer matrimonio con un hombre de cuarenta al que no conoce. A partir de entonces, la joven y futura matriarca, conocida como Big Ammachi, será testigo de cambios impensables: una historia llena de alegrías, pruebas de amor y lucha ante las adversidades.
Evocación de una India desaparecida, imbuida de humor y emoción,
es un himno al entendimiento humano y al progreso de la medicina, y un testimonio de las dificultades sufridas por las generaciones pasadas por el bienestar de quienes viven ahora.
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OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • INSTANT
NEW YORK TIMES
BESTSELLER • SUBJECT OF A SIX-PART SUPER SOUL PODCAST SERIES HOSTED BY OPRAH WINFREY
From the
-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
“One of the best books I’ve read in my entire life. It’s epic. It’s transportive . . . It was unputdownable!”—Oprah Winfrey, OprahDaily.com
Listed as one of
The New York Times'
Notable Fiction Books of 2023
The Covenant of Water
is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major word-of-mouth bestseller
, which has sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States alone and remained on the
bestseller list for over two years.
Spanning the years 1900 to 1977,
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,
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.