by Abraham Verghese · SALAMANDRA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788419346827
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«El pacto del agua» is the family saga novel by Abraham Verghese, published by Salamandra in paperback (784 pages, in Spanish).
In Kerala, a family carries an inherited affliction: each generation loses at least one member to drowning. At the beginning of the twentieth century, a twelve-year-old girl travels by boat to marry a forty-year-old man; over the years she becomes the matriarch Big Ammachi, witness to the changes of her era and the progress of medicine.
Original title: The Covenant of Water. Translation by Eduardo Adrián Hojman Altieri. It was published in October 2023 within the Salamandra Narrativa collection.
For readers aged 16 and up seeking historical fiction with magical realism and plots that span generations.
Abraham Verghese is an Ethiopian-American physician and author. He is the Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor of Medicine, Vice Chair for the Theory & Practice of Medicine, and Internal Medicine Clerkship Director at Stanford Medical School. He is also the author of four best-selling books: two memoirs and two novels. He is the co-host with Eric Topol of the Medscape podcast Medicine and the Machine.
