Indian American author Abraham Verghese's latest novel "The Covenant of Water," a sweeping tale of three generations living on the Malabar coast of South India, has created ripples across the literary world.
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American author Abraham Verghese said his family's background and experience in India served as inspiration for his sweeping 700-page novel. (Nikkei montage/Source photos courtesy of Christopher Michel, Grove Press)
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