To understand Abraham properly, one needs to understand the centrality of God’s covenant with Abraham. As the Fourth Eucharistic Prayer tells us, “Again and again [God] offered a covenant to ...

Much will be written about Abraham Verghese's multigenerational ... Indeed, the literary feats in The Covenant of Water deserve to be lauded as much as those of such canonical authors.

His breakout was the 2009 novel “Cutting for Stone,” a sprawling family saga whose plot hinges on disease and surgical procedures. The title derives from a line in the Hippocratic Oath warning ...

THE COVENANT OF WATER, by Abraham Verghese Abraham Verghese occupies ... and has won awards for both fiction and nonfiction. His last novel, “Cutting for Stone,” spent more than two years ...

Abraham Verghese — novelist (“Cutting for Stone”), doctor and professor of medicine — introduces his enormous new novel, “The Covenant of Water,” with a personal note to advance ...

Bio: Abraham Verghese is a graduate ... A decade in the making, “The Covenant of Water” is his first book since “Cutting for Stone.” ...

Dr. Abraham Verghese teaches medical students at Stanford University's School of Medicine. But he has another calling: author. His novel "The Covenant ... just then it is cut off abruptly, as ...

Tickets are on sale to see Dr. Abraham Verghese ... author of New York Times best-selling novels “Cutting for Stone” and “The Covenant of Water,” was vice chair for the Theory and Practice ...

Dr. Abraham Verghese ... A subsequent novel, 2009's "Cutting for Stone," spent two years on The New York Times bestseller list. But his second novel, "The Covenant of Water," was closest to ...

After Ethiopia’s 1974 coup cut short Verghese’s medical studies ... diagnose patients by listening and close examination. The Covenant of Water opens at the turn of the century in Kerala.