Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From the author of The Covenant of Water: A beautifully written, page-turning family saga of Ethiopia and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. * "Filled with mystical scenes and deeply felt characters.... Verghese is something of a magician as a novelist." --USA Today

Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother's death 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.

Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles--and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.
 
This sweeping, emotionally riveting novel that "shows how history and landscape and accidents of birth conspire to create the story of a single life" (Los Angeles Times).

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	9780375714368
ISBN 10	0375714367
Title	Cutting for Stone
Author	Abraham Verghese
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2010-01-26
Number of pages	688
Prizes	Short-listed for PEN New England/Hemingway Foundation Award 2010
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