{"product_id":"9781804710425-covenant-of-water","title":"The Covenant of Water","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn Oprah’s Book Club Selection. From the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eCutting for Stone\u003c\/i\u003e comes a stunning and magisterial new epic of love, faith and medicine, set in Kerala, South India. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eINSTANT \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSUBJECT OF A SIX-PART SUPER SOUL PODCAST SERIES HOSTED BY OPRAH WINFREY \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of the best books I've read in my entire life. It's epic. It's transportive . It was unputdownable!' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eOprah Winfrey, OprahDaily.com\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpanning the years 1900 to 1977, \u003ci\u003eThe Covenant of Water\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the turn of the century a twelve-year-old girl, 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 poignant beginning, the young girl and future matriarch - known as Big Ammachi - will witness unthinkable changes at home and at large over the span of her extraordinary life, full of the joys and trials of love and the struggles of hardship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA shimmering evocation of a lost India and of the passage of time itself, \u003ci\u003eThe Covenant of Water \u003c\/i\u003eis a hymn to progress in medicine and to human understanding, and a humbling testament to the hardships undergone by past generations for the sake of those alive today. Imbued with humour, deep emotion and the essence of life, it is one of the most masterful literary novels published in recent years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40837535826017,"sku":"9781804710425","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/products\/stand_14131188_jpg.jpg?v=1705562127","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781804710425-covenant-of-water","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}