Creator Abraham Verghese will participate in an occasion on the Dallas Museum of Artwork’s Horchow Auditorium on Might 9 at 7:30 p.m. Verghese’s new novel, The Covenant of Water, is due out Might 2.
Set in Kerala, on southern India’s Malabar Coast, The Covenant of Water follows three generations of a household who are suffering an odd affliction: In each era, no less than one particular person dies by drowning. The novel traces India’s path to modernity from 1900 to the late Nineteen Seventies.
Verghese, a famend Stanford doctor, is the writer of the 2009 novel Chopping for Stone, which remained on The New York Instances bestseller checklist for greater than two years. He additionally wrote the nonfiction books My Personal Nation: A Physician’s Story and The Tennis Companion. Verghese’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Texas Month-to-month, The Atlantic, The New York Instances, The Wall Avenue Journal and different publications.
Born in Ethiopia to Indian-born dad and mom, Verghese, 67, was offered with a Nationwide Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama in 2015. His medical profession has included stints in Texas, the place he spent 11 years as professor of drugs and chief of the Division of Infectious Ailments at Texas Tech Well being Sciences Heart in El Paso. Verghese left El Paso in 2002 to function founding director of the Heart for Medical Humanities and Ethics on the College of Texas Well being Science Heart at San Antonio. He’s identified for his deep curiosity in bedside drugs, which led to his recruitment to the Stanford College College of Drugs in 2007.
Particulars
Tickets to the DMA occasion are $35 for most of the people, $30 for DMA members or educators, and $10 for college students. Digital tickets can be found for $15 for most of the people or $12 for DMA members. Tickets bundled with a duplicate of Verghese’s new ebook are additionally out there. For tickets or extra info, go to etix.com.
The Dallas Museum of Artwork is at 1717 N. Harwood St.
