The Covenant of water - Abraham VergheseCondition: Pre loved 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,

It is an invitation for everyone to embrace and rejoice in their inner Nigerian

one meant to usher its recipient into a long-lost world of esoteric wisdom

where she will attend balls and mingle among high society

intuitive writer

The story begins when Lerato is twelve but all too soon it becomes starkly apparent that all is not well with her

and spare neither woman nor child

And April never saw herself as a housewife

It was through reading this novel that Serote realised that everything he had read before was about things he had not experienced himself

to her warrior sister Frankie

and her involvement with the End Conscription Campaign and the Black Sash

"Soweto Funeral

and stars in the universe