Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese

Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese

My brother, Shiva, and I came into the world in the late afternoon of the twentieth of September in the year of grace 1954. We took our first breaths in the thick air of Addis Ababa, capital city of Ethiopia. Where silk and steel fail, story must succeed. To begin at the beginning...

This huge, rich, ambitious tapestry of a novel makes insomnia a pleasure..tremendous * The Times *
There is a gravity and beauty in his writing that sets it apart from much contemporary fiction * Daily Telegraph *
Tremendous, compassionate, exuberant * Independent *
The reader feels there really is something at stake - birth, love, death, war, loyalty * Guardian *
Tremendousm compassionate, exuberant -- Michael Bywater * Independent *

Born and brought up of Indian parents in Ethiopia, Abraham Verghese qualified as a doctor in Madras and is currently professor of medicine at Stanford University, California. He is the author of My Own Country, an NBCC finalist made into a film directed by Mira Nair, and The Tennis Partner, a New York Times Notable Book. His essays and stories have appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Esquire, Granta, New York Times Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal. He lives in Palo Alto, California.

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ISBN 13	9780099443636
ISBN 10	0099443635
Title	Cutting For Stone
Author	Abraham Verghese
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2009-12-26
Number of pages	560
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