Historical · Literary
The Covenant of Water
Beginning in 1900, a girl in Kerala is married to an older widower and moves into his family estate. Over generations, her descendants are marked by a strange condition in which a family member in each generation drowns.
- First published
- 2023
- Pace
- slow
- Length
- long
- Format
- Standalone
Read this if you want an immersive, unhurried multigenerational novel set among doctors, boats and rivers.
Skip this if you want pace and brevity; it is over seven hundred pages and takes its time.
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