About Abraham Verghese's novel “The Testament of Water” The Testament of Water is the second novel by Abraham Verghese, an Indian-American writer. Like the first, "Stone's Dissection", it immediately became a bestseller in America. This is a family saga about the people of the Indian state of Kerala, which takes place in the 1900s to 1970s. Read more about her in Tatyana Shcherbina’s material.