![]() ![]() Click here to view the read-along schedule. Join Oprah, Abraham Verghese, and Oprah's Book Club readers for a special discussion of The Covenant of Water on Oprah Daily in a few weeks. It was unputdownable!" So, clear your schedule and immerse yourself in this instant classic, which Verghese, a physician, wrote while simultaneously working as a professor of medicine at Stanford University. I couldn't put the book down until the very last page. Many moments during the read I had to stop and remember to breathe. "It's one of the best books I've read in my entire life," Oprah said of her latest pick. ![]() This epic tale soars with lyricism and tension, transporting you across time and continents. We follow three generations from 1900 to 1977 through mysterious drownings, afflictions, colonialism and independence. Inspired by his great-grandmother, who, as a child, married a widower, Verghese introduces the fictional Big Ammachi, matriarch of a Christian community in Kerala, India. These four novels, which have won one Pulitzer Prize and two National Book. In this video, Oprah unveils her 101st book club pick, The Covenant of Water, the long-awaited second novel from best-selling author Abraham Verghese ( Cutting for Stone, 2008). Over the past sixteen years, Marilynne Robinson’s now-mythical world of Gilead, Iowa, and the beloved characters who inhabit it, have illuminated and interrogated the complexities of American history, the power of our emotions, and the wonders of a sacred world. ![]()
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