#JohnsonCity #EastTennessee #AbrahamVerghese

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/26/us/harvard-commencement-speaker-abraham-verghese

"The Covenant of Water" d'Abraham Verghese, qui vient de sortir en France sous le titre "Le Pacte de l'eau". A la moitié du roman, je commençais vraiment à décrocher. Un pavé de 700 pages, sur trois générations au XXe siècle en Inde. Le style ça va, il y a de belles envolées. Mais la psychologie des personnages, les intrigues et le contexte historique laissent à désirer, j'aurais voulu en savoir davantage par exemple sur les Chrétiens de saint Thomas, c'est l'apôtre qui a fait le voyage jusque là-bas, dans l'actuel Kerala #bookstodon #vendredilecture #books #mastolivre #livre #TheCovenantOfWater #Lepactedeleau #abrahamverghese

Finally finished the book. Part 1 is a bit hard to traverse. Then we will gain momentum. Beware of long and detailed descriptions of clinical operations and medical conditions. #CuttingForStone #AbrahamVerghese #books

Next books I'm reading: In Ascension from Martin MacInnes, The Covenant of Water from Abraham Verghese and How to Say Babylon from Safiya Sinclair. They will be published and released in France the coming months #rentréelittéraire #bookstodon #vendredilecture #books #MartinMacInnes #AbrahamVerghese #SafiyaSinclair

#Reading a novel written by a doctor is like..

“Spider angiomas all over his exposed skin. Eyes tinged with jaundice. No doubt his breasts are enlarged, his armpits hairless, and his testes shriveled to the size of walnuts—all because his liver no longer detoxifies the estrogen a male normally produces. And the stale juniper-berry breath. Ah yes, she thought, coming to a diagnosis beyond cirrhosis:.”

#CuttingForStone #AbrahamVerghese #books

Listening to A COVENANT OF WATER (2023) - Abraham Verghese

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Covenant_of_Water

#TheCovenantOfWater #Kerala #SouthIndia #India #AbrahamVerghese #Novel #Book #Books #Audiobook #Libby #Library #PublicLibrary

@bookstodon

Reading The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese.
Love it. Find myself looking for excuses to go read a bit more and happy when I notice I haven't made that much progress yet.

Just as captivating as Cutting for Stone, if not more.

I want it to last!

Great book to start the year with.

#AbrahamVerghese

Pojawiło się wznowienie znakomitej powieści "Powrót do Missing", więc przypominam też moją recenzję: http://cyfranek.booklikes.com/post/14285/znakomita_bardzo_ludzka_opowiesc_o_losach_indusow_na_obczyznie_z_indiami_etiopia_i_stanami_zjednoczonymi_w_tle
#Indie #recenzja #Etiopia #AbrahamVerghese

'The Covenant of Water' by Abraham Verghese https://booksperience.org/2023/07/01/the-covenant-of-water-by-abraham-verghese/ #AbrahamVerghese, #Culture, #Curse, #Drama, #Emotions, #Family, #Fiction, #HistoricalFiction, #History, #India, #Kerala, #LiteraryFiction, #Mystery, #Novel, #OprahsBookClub, #OprahsBookClubSelection, #TheCovenantOfWater, #Water

Crack open a copy of the bestselling book—and soon-to-be movie—"The Covenant of Water," and you'll find illustrations from the author's cousin, Alamedan Tom Varghese. C.J. Hirschfield talks with Tom about the book, growing up in Kerala, and how he discovered he wanted to be an artist.

https://alamedapost.com/features/arts/alameda-artist-tom-varghese-in-national-spotlight/

#AbrahamVerghese #alameda #illustration #RhythmixCulturalWorks #TheCovenantOfWater #TomVarghese #VickiVarghese

Abraham Verghese’s new novel, The Covenant of Water is to be released on Tuesday, May 2. I don’t usually buy books anymore but I bought this one! Big Ammachi is the matriarch of a family that has a covenant with water. Every generation, one member of the family drowns. “Memories are woven from gossamer threads; time eats holes in the fabric, and these she must darn with myth and fable," he has Big Ammachi say when asked by her granddaughter to tell the family story.” Taken From a review in the St. Louis Post Register posted on Facebook, this sentence seems to bundle all our lives into the memory and myths we carry. It made me shiver. #books #AbrahamVerghese #CovenantofWater #Read

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/openbook/article/91347-abraham-verghese-s-epic-new-family-history.html
Abraham Verghese’s epic new family history, The Covenant of Water will be released later this year. #AbrahamVerghese #CovenentofWater #books

Here are ten more

The Sympathizer - #VietThanhNguyen
The Peripheral - #WilliamGibson
Deacon King Kong - #JamesMcBride
Saga - #FionaStaples & #BrianKVaughan
The Ministry of the Future - #KimStanleyRobinson
The Book of Dust - #PhilipPullman
Cutting For Stone - #AbrahamVerghese
The Lexicon of Musical Invective - #NicolasSlonimsky
Pachinko - #MinJinLee
The Orphan Master’s Son - #AdamJohnson
Black Swan Green - #DavidMitchell

Seven books to get to know me, fiction edition (inspired by @alicemcalicepants and @bjornlarssen )
-A Home at the End of the World, #MichaelCunningham
-Jane and Prudence, #BarbaraPym
-Harriet the Spy, #LouiseFitzhugh
-The Patron Saint of Liars, #AnnPatchett
-Stardust, #NeilGaiman
-Cutting for Stone, #AbrahamVerghese
-Eleanor and Park, #RainbowRowell

#Books #bookstodon #FictionReader #FictionFriday #7Books