Testament of water. VERGEZE A.

The author of the “Discharging of Stone”, immediately after the release of the American publication, became one of the main bestseller. Epic story about people, India and medicine.

southern India, family secrets; Elephants that easily come to a visit; mysterious perfumes living underground; Medicine, its romance and gross reality; Flexive passions and healing wisdom. And also adventures, dreams, many colors, sounds, light, human stories woven into the history of India. It all starts in 1900, and ends in the late 1970s, although in fact it does not end at all. The story of several generations of the family of Indian Christians from Kerala, surprisingly associated with the history of the show-spoke doctor from Glasgow, whom fate brought to India. But still the novel by Abraham Verghese is not just a family saga in exotic decorations. This is a wise and kind story that the family creates not blood kinship, but a community of fate; that there is always a choice, but there is not always the strength to make it; that we are all forever connected with each other with our actions and inaction and that no one is left alone.