ISBN号:9780802162175
书名:The Covenant of Water
作者:Abraham Verghese
出版日期:2023-04-04T17:54:29Z
英文简介:
OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret “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 The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major word-of-mouth bestseller Cutting for Stone, which has sold over 1.
5 million copies in the United States alone and remained on the New York Times bestseller list for over two years.
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 twelve-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 forty-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.
A shimmering evocation of a bygone 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 difficulties undergone by past generations for the sake of those alive today.
It is one of the most masterful literary novels published in recent years.
中文简介:
奥普拉的图书俱乐部精选 * 立即成为纽约时报畅销书 来自纽约时报畅销书 Cutting for Stone 的作者讲述了一部关于爱、信仰和医学的惊人而权威的史诗，故事发生在印度南部的喀拉拉邦，讲述了一个家庭三代人的寻求一个奇怪秘密的答案 “这是我一生中读过的最好的书之一。
它是史诗般的。
它是运输的……它是无法拒绝的！” – 奥普拉温弗瑞，OprahDaily.com 水之盟约是长期 -亚伯拉罕·韦尔盖斯 (Abraham Verghese) 的新小说备受期待，他是主要口碑畅销书《为石头而切割》的作者，该书仅在美国就售出超过 150 万册，并在《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜上停留了两年多。
跨越 1900 年到 1977 年，水之盟约发生在印度南部马拉巴尔海岸的喀拉拉邦，讲述了一个家庭的三代人都遭受了一种特殊的痛苦：每一代人中，至少有一个人死于溺水——而在喀拉拉邦，到处都是水。
世纪之交，一位来自喀拉拉邦长期存在的基督教社区的 12 岁女孩因父亲的去世而悲痛不已，被乘船送去参加她的婚礼，在那里她将与 40 岁的丈夫相见。
第一次。
从这个令人难忘的新开始，这个年轻的女孩——也就是未来的女族长，被称为大阿玛奇——将在她非凡的人生中见证难以想象的变化，充满喜悦和胜利，也充满艰辛和失落，她的信仰和热爱只有常数。
《水之盟约》闪闪发光地唤起过去的印度和时间本身的流逝，是医学进步和人类理解的赞歌，也是对过去几代人为了今天活着的人所经历的困难的谦卑证明。
它是近年来出版的最精湛的文学小说之一。
书籍总体字数：228243，除去名字和专有名词等之后还剩余212793计入单词总数。
书籍单词数大于20万，属于篇幅较长，初学者慎入，如果下方难度分析较低还是可以尝试的。
其中：
四级单词出现194595个/次,
六级单词（排除四级单词后）出现3149个/次，
托福单词出现97595个/次，
SAT单词出现10420个/次，
GRE单词出现21487个/次，考研单词出现196148个/次，
雅思单词出现46209个/次。
高中单词出现186145个/次。
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非常欢迎大家提供自己收集的词库给我。
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