Water Contract
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"Water Pact" is a novel set in the southern Indian state of Kerala. In 1900, the father of Mariamma, a 12-year-old girl from a Christian family, passed away, and her uncle planned to marry her to a 40-year-old widower. She and her mother took a boat to a strange seaside village and married into the Palambier family. From then on, her name was replaced by a new title "Grandma Qi". At the age of 18, the eldest grandma gave birth to a daughter. She was still immersed in the joy of becoming a mother for the first time, but her stepson drowned and died. The secret of the family was also revealed: at least one person in each generation died due to "water". His son Philibos was born and grew up with a fear of water. He married Elsie, a beautiful and talented artist. Elsie disappeared mysteriously, leaving her infant daughter with Grandma Qi. In her life, Grandma Qi witnessed the harm caused to her family by birth defects, hearing loss, smallpox, leprosy, and opium addiction. She witnessed the sorrow and struggle of three generations, the historical turmoil of the Indian independence movement and the trauma left by the caste system. Until her granddaughter grew up to be an excellent doctor, she ushered in the dawn of unraveling the water curse for the family.
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