Name: El Pacto del Agua
SKU: 55673891
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Author: Abraham Verghese
ISBN: 9786073836593

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Physical Book

Author

Abraham Verghese

Publisher

Salamandra

Pages

784

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9786073836593

Edited in

México

Edition No.

2023

El Pacto del Agua

Abraham Verghese (Author) · Salamandra · Paperback

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Synopsis "El Pacto del Agua"

Una magistral saga familiar ambientada en la India del siglo XX que ha cautivado al público y la crítica por el autor de Hijos del ancho mundo. El pacto del agua sigue a una familia que sufre una aflicción peculiar: en cada generación, al menos una persona muere ahogada, y en Kerala el agua está en todas partes. A principios del siglo XX, una niña de doce años es enviada en barco para contraer matrimonio con un hombre de cuarenta al que no conoce. A partir de entonces, la joven y futura matriarca, conocida como Big Ammachi, será testigo de cambios impensables: una historia llena de alegrías, pruebas de amor y lucha ante las adversidades. Evocación de una India desaparecida, imbuida de humor y emoción, El pacto del agua es un himno al entendimiento humano y al progreso de la medicina, y un testimonio de las dificultades sufridas por las generaciones pasadas por el bienestar de quienes viven ahora.

Abraham Verghese

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Abraham Verghese is an American physician, author, Professor at Stanford University’s Medical School, and Senior Associate Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine where he is renowned for his focus on healing and empathetic care. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the author of four books including two memoirs and two novels.

Verghese’s extraordinary new book, The Covenant of Water, will be released May 2, 2023. With page-turning energy, it tells an epic story of India’s path to modernity through a single family living in Kerala from 1900 to the 1970s, moving through joy, tragedy, love, and marriage as the country around them shifts and turns. It’s a beautiful, humbling book about family lineage and connection, and also about the unexpected ways mankind makes progress. The Covenant of Water blends the author’s deep knowledge of and enthusiasm for the medical world with his writing genius, resulting in a bold, sweeping story that reads like a riveting classic Russian novel.

His remarkable first book, the highly praised My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story, was Verghese’s memoir about his work treating AIDS patients in rural Tennessee. He followed this with The Tennis Partner: A Story of Friendship and Loss, another eloquently personal story, this time about his friend and tennis partner, a medical resident in recovery from drug addiction. Verghese’s previous novel, Cutting for Stone, describes a period of dramatic political change in Ethiopia. It remained on the New York Times bestseller list for two years.

Verghese is the recipient of a Heinz Award in 2014 and a National Humanities Medal from Obama in 2015.

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Anonymous User Saturday, June 21, 2025
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Un libro increíble que ojalá fuera más popular. La historia te hace viajar a una India del siglo pasado de la mano de una familia con una extraña condición. El autor trata muchos temas interesantes, tanto en un contexto cultural indio como en avances médicos de esos tiempos. Por otro lado, en cuanto a la entrega, fue rápida y buena como siempre.
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