Incredible moving story

How the author brings the story to life and depicts every turn, every moment with such emotion and clarity. I was so touched by this story

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Wonderful

Captivating story! You don’t want to interrupt your listening to this book. That it is read by the author makes it even more valuable.

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Recommendable

Well researched book, enjoyable for medically and historically interested listeners.Abraham Verghese does a great job narrorating his own book

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A colorful and warmhearted family and medical history over 70 years starting in early 20th century India

The empathy of a physician and writer turns a story about three generations of an Indian family afflicted with a hereditary disease in today’s Kerela into a fascinating colorful and emotional movie. The author voice makes this a 5 * performance.

I loved the accurate medical descriptions explained with so much empathy for the patients. This is how human-centered medicine should be!

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Amazing

Beautiful writing, managing to stay interesting and to build story and character arcs across a wide time span of multiple generations. The narration by the author, with the different voices and accents, brought the story to life. I could imagine the scene and setting, even though he didn't spend too much time on mundane descriptions.

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beautiful book, spanning generations

It is easily felt that this story has been well lived in and explored by the writer or people close to him. As someone who was born in India, I felt the author really understood the nuances of colonialism as felt by the rural areas of South India.
I felt the characters were a bit pure and followed clean lines, which feels a bit unnatural to me, but I couldn't help rooting for them against waves of death and tragedies, always retaining hope.
31 hours was a long listen, but I am glad I stuck with it.

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I have read/heard so many books in my life. Never a better one than this story.

I loved the characters, I laughed and cried with them. I heard sentences I stopped the car while driving, just to listen to them over and over again. So much meaning and wisdom in only a few words!
And what to say about the author’s ability to capture so many English accents, to speak for so many so heterogeneous characters, embedding us into so many minds, hearts and souls.
I know I will recall this book and what it made me feel for ever. Thank you, thank you. Thank you!

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One of the best books I have read or listened to

Dense and moving. Written without drama although full of drama. So many pages but no page too many. Wonderful.

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Interesting

It is a well-narrated story which get better in the second half of the book. But first half was a bit of a struggle to read, slightly boring for my taste and I almost gave up. Interesting storyline with lots of descriptions of environment, habits, traditions, but...at places way too much of that

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Outstanding saga, beautifully told

This is an engrossing family saga, beautifully told and with so much to learn. Set in Kerala, South India in the early 1900s, it starts with a child bride getting ready to marry her 40 yr old widowed groom and look after his young son. What sounds like a depressing start turns into a different story where stereotypes are broken: the groom & his family is kind, the girl is treated well and becomes Big Amachie, the caring matriarch of the clan.

Central to the plot is “the condition” causing members in every generation of this family to fear water and eventually die by drowning. How this pans out and how this medical mystery is eventually solved is a key driver in the story.

I learnt so much about India and was particularly fascinated by the St Thomas Christians (tracing their origins to the “doubting Thomas”, one of Jesus’ original disciples). The medical explanations, British history and Indian independence were interesting too, but it’s the flowing story, vivid characters and gentle humor that grab your heart and don’t let you go.

I can particularly recommend the audiobook read by the author. Especially his special local Indian accent made it such an authentic experience. A wonderful treasure of a book that will stay with me!

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