Abraham verghese

Mini-review of Cutting for Stone, a novel by Abraham Verghese.

Long but good. Especially for those interested in medicine.

I've heard to start this book with no preconceptions because the description doesn't do it justice. Suffice it to say that this novel has been recommended by fellow readers with great taste who describe it using my favorite adjectives: haunting, sweeping, gorgeous.

Oprah's Book Club author Abraham Verghese on visualizing his expansive novel "The Covenant of Water" through drawings, mapping, and sculpting.

Read 1,156 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from the accl…

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The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese Set in the 1800s in Kerela, India, the Parambil family suffers from a curse where at least one member dies by drowning or anything related to water. A book rich in culture and melodic love. I read this book last year, and I still think about it almost every day. I wanted to review this book, but I was simply out of words to describe the impact this book had on me. Loyalty, motherhood, friendship, and love have been portrayed beautifully. If I…

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“The Covenant of Water” follows three generations of a close-knit and haunted family in southwestern India.

Kalanithi is nearing the end of his long and arduous training in neurosurgery when he receives his own terminal cancer diagnosis, and the role reversal is immediate: suddenly he's the patient, not the doctor. This is the book he wrote after his diagnosis: he'd always dreamed of writing a book "one day," and when his own timeline was dramatically shortened, he got to work. He didn't quite finish: one of the best parts of the book is the moving epilogue written by his widow. Recommended for…