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Abraham Verghese

Biography

Abraham Verghese

Abraham Verghese is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the author of books including the NBCC Award finalist MY OWN COUNTRY and the New York Times Notable Book THE TENNIS PARTNER. His most recent book, CUTTING FOR STONE, spent 107 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and sold more than 1.5 million copies in the U.S. alone. It was translated into more than 20 languages and is being adapted for film by Anonymous Content.

Verghese was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2016, has received five honorary degrees, and is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He lives and practices medicine in Stanford, California where he is the Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

A decade in the making, THE COVENANT OF WATER is his first book since CUTTING FOR STONE.

Abraham Verghese

Books by Abraham Verghese

by Abraham Verghese - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, THE COVENANT OF WATER is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: In every generation, at least one person dies by drowning --- and in Kerala, water is everywhere. At the turn of the century, a 12-year-old girl from Kerala’s long-existing Christian community, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her wedding, where she will meet her 40-year-old husband for the first time. From this unforgettable new beginning, the young girl --- and future matriarch, known as Big Ammachi --- will witness unthinkable changes over the span of her extraordinary life, full of joy and triumph, as well as hardship and loss, her faith and love the only constants.

written by Abraham Verghese, read by Sunil Malhotra - Fiction

Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Although they come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution, it will be love, not politics --- their passion for the same woman --- that will tear them apart and force Marion, fresh out of medical school, to flee his homeland. When the past catches up to him, Marion must entrust his life to the two men he thought he trusted least in the world.