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Cargando... The Covenant of Water (2023)por Abraham Verghese
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I loved the parts which took place in Parambil, which seemed magical to me. The characters were vivid as was the landscape and way of life. The weakest portions were the love affairs which is why I didn't rate it at 5. ( ) Set in the southern Indian coast from 1900-1977, we meet three generations of family who has lost members through drowning. We live alongside these characters, through good times (marriages, births) and bad times (monsoons, illness, untimely deaths). We also learn about the history of India during those years, something I knew little about. The characters propel this fascinating story- from a 12 year-old girl who is married off to a 40 year-old man and becomes the matriarch of an important family, to Digby, a Scottish doctor who ends up working at a leper community, to Elsie, a artist who wants desperately to be allowed to create her art, to Mariamma, who trains to become a doctor trying to discover why her family members die from drowning- all of their stories intersect until the surprising ending that had me gasping. It's a true commitment to read this novel, but so worth it. A sprawling family saga set among the St. Thomas Christians of India's south west coast, in the mid 20th Century. At Parambil the family's history is profoundly shaped by the mysterious aversion to water and numerous drownings among it's members. Also entering the story is an illegitimate son of a Glasgow variety actress who wants to be a surgeon but must go to India because, somewhat ironically, he is essentially, in spite of his training, an untouchable to the British medical professionals. His crooked course does have important tangents with the genetically afflicted family at Parambil. With many intriguing plots, I still did not connect with any character except The Elephant Damodaron. Beauty in "The Madras evening breeze..." And had decided, if Philopose cut down his Palau tree, that I would just skim the rest of the book. It was not Queequeg, but Tashtego at the mast of Ahab's drowning ship. Both character and author disappointing - way too much death, death, and more death.
Water affects a family’s fate in this enthralling epic from the physician-author, set across three generations...This is a novel – a splendid, enthralling one – about the body, about what characters inherit and what makes itself felt upon them. It is the body that contains ambiguities and mysteries. As in his international bestseller Cutting for Stone, Verghese’s medical knowledge and his mesmerising attention to detail combine to create breathtaking, edge-of-your-seat scenes of survival and medical procedures that are difficult to forget. Tenderness permeates every page, at the same time as he is ruthless with the many ways his characters are made vulnerable by simply being alive....The Covenant of Water contains a larger question of community and belonging, one that feels most important in these days of escalating political wars and tensions: is it possible to be fragile and wounded, and still necessary and loved? The answer is rendered with care by a writer who looks at the world with a doctor’s knowing, merciful gaze. As much as any moral reckoning or catastrophic plot point, this is why literature, in all its comforting and challenging forms, matters. PremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
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 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. La crítica ha dicho... «Una de las tres mejores novelas que he leído en toda mi vida. Nunca me había sentido así respecto a un libro». Oprah Winfrey «Gran literatura para conocer el mundo». Babelia «Una novela para detener el tiempo y dejarse llevar por su corriente imparable». Vogue «Una novela grandiosa, espectacular, arrolladora y absolutamente absorbente». The New York Times «Un logro literario exquisito y excepcional en el que todas las piezas encajan a la perfección». Kirkus Reviews «Las fortalezas técnicas de Verghese son consistentes y versátiles. [...] En todo momento, entreteje su amor insaciable y su fe en el arte y la literatura. [...] Una novela colosal, ambiciosa y apasionada: una hazaña magnífica». The Washington Post «Una obra inconmensurable, cautivadora». Los Angeles Times «Espléndida, desgarradora». Oprah Daily «¡Qué glorioso relato de tierra y familia! ¡Qué camino tan brillante trazado a lo largo de generaciones!». Honorée Fanonne Jeffers «Verghese, una leyenda literaria en la cima de su talento, nos lleva de viaje durante un siglo y por más de un continente, mientras nos deslumbra con su prosa rica y elegante». Dani Shapiro «Una novela brillante. Un mundo mágico vigoroso y asombroso. Unos personajes absolutamente creíbles. Me encantaría estar leyéndola días y noches sin parar». Megha Majudmar No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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