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Le pacte de l´eau
Abraham Verghese
- Flammarion
- Litterature Etrangere Flammarion
- 21 Août 2024
- 9782080441027
Travancore, côte de Malabar, 1900. Une fillette monte à bord d'un bateau qui la conduit à la cérémonie de son mariage. Son futur époux est un bon parti, mais elle découvre bientôt que sa famille est frappée d'une étrange malédiction : à chaque nouvelle génération, au moins une personne meurt noyée - ironie du sort particulièrement cruelle dans cette région du Kerala où l'eau est omniprésente, modelant la terre en un entrelacs de lagons et de lacs, accompagnant les existences de son chant feutré, reliant toute chose dans le temps et dans l'espace. Au cours de sa longue et extraordinaire vie, tandis que sa famille évolue au gré des naissances et des disparitions, elle connaîtra la joie du grand amour, la douleur de pertes irréparables, et sera témoin des transformations majeures de son pays. Jusqu'à l'arrivée d'une petite-fille qui porte son nom et qui, cherchant à son tour à élucider cette malédiction mystérieuse, fait une découverte bouleversante. Évocation lumineuse d'une Inde révolue et sublime évocation du passage du temps, Le Pacte de l'eau est un livre-monde qui, à travers les existences pétries de joies, de triomphes et d'épreuves qu'il dépeint, explore toutes les facettes de l'expérience humaine.
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Éthiopie, 1954. Nés de l'union secrète d'une infirmière indienne et d'un chirurgien britannique, Marion et Shiva ont grandi livrés à eux-mêmes. Orphelins de mère et abandonnés par leur père, ces frères jumeaux sont toujours restés unis comme les doigts de la main. Mais alors que la révolution gronde, ils se déchirent pour l'amour d'une femme, forçant Marion, fraîchement diplômé de médecine, à fuir sa patrie pour l'Amérique. La porte des larmes est une inoubliable histoire d'amour et de trahison, de compassion et de rédemption, d'exil et d'appartenance, qui se déploie sur cinq décennies et fait halte en Inde, en Éthiopie et aux États-Unis. Un roman épique sur le pouvoir, l'intimité et la curieuse beauté du travail de soignant.
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A sweeping, emotionally riveting novel with over one million copies sold--an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home.
Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mothers death and their fathers disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution.
Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles--and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined. -
By the bestselling author of Cutting for Stone, a story of medicine in the American heartland, and confronting one's deepest prejudices and fears.
Nestled in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, the town of Johnson City had always seemed exempt from the anxieties of modern American life. But when the local hospital treated its first AIDS patient, a crisis that had once seemed an urban problem had arrived in the town to stay.
Working in Johnson City was Abraham Verghese, a young Indian doctor specializing in infectious diseases. Dr. Verghese became by necessity the local AIDS expert, soon besieged by a shocking number of male and female patients whose stories came to occupy his mind, and even take over his life. Verghese brought a singular perspective to Johnson City: as a doctor unique in his abilities; as an outsider who could talk to people suspicious of local practitioners; above all, as a writer of grace and compassion who saw that what was happening in this conservative community was both a medical and a spiritual emergency. -
THE COVENANT OF WATER - AN OPRAH''S BOOK CLUB SELECTION
Abraham Verghese
- Atlantic Books
- 18 Mai 2023
- 9781804710425
OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
SUBJECT OF A SIX-PART SUPER SOUL PODCAST SERIES HOSTED BY OPRAH WINFREY
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023
'One of the best books I've read in my entire life. It's epic. It's transportive . . . It was unputdownable!' Oprah Winfrey, OprahDaily.com
Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water follows a family in southern India 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 twelve-year-old girl, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her wedding, where she will meet her forty-year-old husband for the first time. From this poignant beginning, the young girl and future matriarch - known as Big Ammachi - will witness unthinkable changes at home and at large over the span of her extraordinary life, full of the joys and trials of love and the struggles of hardship.
A shimmering evocation of a lost India and of the passage of time itself, The Covenant of Water is a hymn to progress in medicine and to human understanding, and a humbling testament to the hardships undergone by past generations for the sake of those alive today. Imbued with humour, deep emotion and the essence of life, it is one of the most masterful literary novels published in recent years.