Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese Md

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese Md

The international bestseller with over one million copies sold. A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel -- an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home.

Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother's death in childbirth and their father's disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Yet it will be love, not politics -- their passion for the same woman -- that will tear them apart and force Marion, fresh out of medical school, to flee his homeland. He makes his way to America, finding refuge in his work as an intern at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. When the past catches up to him -- nearly destroying him -- Marion must entrust his life to the two men he thought he trusted least in the world: the surgeon father who abandoned him and the brother who betrayed him.

An unforgettable journey into one man's remarkable life, and an epic story about the power, intimacy, and curious beauty of the work of healing others.

Abraham Verghese is the author of My Own Country and Cutting for Stone. He is a practicing physician and a professor of medicine at Stanford University. His work has featured in journals such as The New Yorker, Granta, and others. He is a resident of Palo Alto, California.

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ISBN 13	9780375414497
ISBN 10	0375414495
Title	Cutting for Stone
Author	Abraham Verghese Md
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2009-02-03
Number of pages	541
Prizes	Indies Choice Book Awards, Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
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