El pacto del agua = The covenant of water
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Barcelona : Narrativa/Salamandra, 2023.
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Edition
Primera edición.
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784 pages ; 23 cm
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Waterloo Public Library - Adult New Fiction
SPANISH FICTION VERGHESE
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Published
Barcelona : Narrativa/Salamandra, 2023.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Spanish

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Translation of: The covenant of water
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Includes bibliographical references
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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, El pacto del agua 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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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. It is one of the most masterful literary novels published in recent years.
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Text in Spanish ; Translated from the English

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Verghese, A., & Hojman, E. (2023). El pacto del agua =: The covenant of water (Primera edición.). Narrativa/Salamandra.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Verghese, Abraham, 1955- and Eduardo Hojman. 2023. El Pacto Del Agua =: The Covenant of Water. Narrativa/Salamandra.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Verghese, Abraham, 1955- and Eduardo Hojman. El Pacto Del Agua =: The Covenant of Water Narrativa/Salamandra, 2023.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Verghese, Abraham, and Eduardo Hojman. El Pacto Del Agua =: The Covenant of Water Primera edición., Narrativa/Salamandra, 2023.

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