How Long to Read The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club)

How Long Does it Take to Read The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club)?

It takes the average reader 10 hours and 41 minutes to read The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club) by Abraham Verghese

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SUBJECT OF A SIX-PART SUPER SOUL PODCAST SERIES HOSTED BY OPRAH WINFREY 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 Wateris 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.

How long is The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club)?

The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club) by Abraham Verghese is 626 pages long, and a total of 160,256 words.

This makes it 211% the length of the average book. It also has 196% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club) Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 14 hours and 35 minutes to read The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club) aloud.

What Reading Level is The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club)?

The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club) is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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