When asked to describe the south Indian state of Kerala, the word that springs to mind for Dr. Abraham Verghese is this: “Water – 44 rivers, countless streams and lagoons and hundreds of miles of ...
Abraham Verghese is an amazingly impressive and endearing human being. Born in Ethiopia, the son of Indian parents, Verghese studied medicine in India and did residencies in the United States, ...
The Covenant of Water follows three generations of a family in the coastal state of Kerala, India, where they're haunted by a devastating event, over and over: In every generation, someone in the ...
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with the author Abraham Verghese about his new novel The Covenant of Water in which a family in India is haunted by a medical mystery. Sponsor Message ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE: ...
The physician-author’s new book, “The Covenant of Water,” contains traces of his mother, his cousin and his own medical experience. By Elisabeth Egan The New York Times’s review of Abraham Verghese’s ...