![]() ![]() ![]() He is devoted to the people of India and takes on the challenges of treating leprosy patients. He is also a compelling character, who loves deeply and meets tragedy. ![]() Digby is a dedicated, compassionate doctor. In another storyline, we meet Digby Kilgour, a Scottish physician traveling to India after joining the Indian Medical Service to gain surgical experience denied him in Scotland. But for generations, the family has been overshadowed by a mysterious phenomenon: many have died from drowning. Life is difficult, and Big Ammachi and her husband ceaselessly labor to build a life. Through heartbreak and happiness, we follow her children, grandchild, extended family, and their faithful pulayan (lower caste) Shemuel and his family – all live on the sprawling plantation in Parambil. He is a quiet, gentle man, and their arranged marriage, consummated years later, grows into a beautiful, touching love story. Her husband has carved out a large plantation from untamed land. This begins her life as Big (for her tiny size) Ammachi (mother) and matriarch to her Malayali family.īig Ammachi’s courage and resilience is the backbone of her family. At the age of 12 she must leave her home to marry a 40-year-old widower and became mother to his son. ![]() From 1900 to 1977 in southern India, we follow a girl known only as “moloy” (daughter). Fourteen years after Verghese’s success with his first novel, Cutting for Stone, he brings readers another impressive family saga. ![]()
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