The covenant of water : a novel / Abraham Verghese.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780802162175
- ISBN: 0802162177
- Physical Description: 724 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Grove Press, 2023.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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Subject: | Families > Fiction. Drowning > Fiction. Drowning. Families. Kerala (India) > Fiction. Glasgow (Scotland) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. Fiction. Historical fiction. Novels. Historical fiction. Novels. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Upper Skagit Library | VER | 1016420 | Fiction | Available | - |
ABRAHAM VERGHESE is a graduate of the Iowa Writersâ Workshop and the author of the NBCC Award finalist My Own Country and the New York Times Notable Book The Tennis Partner. His most recent book, Cutting for Stone, spent 107 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and sold more than 1.5 million copies in the U.S. alone. It was translated into more than twenty languages and is being adapted for film by Anonymous Content. Verghese was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2016, has received five honorary degrees, and is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He lives and practices medicine in Stanford, California where he is the Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine. A decade in the making, The Covenant of Water is his first book since Cutting for Stone.