Cutting for Stone

Abraham Verghese

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Author
Abraham Verghese
Publish Date
2010-01-26
Book Type
Paperback
Number of Pages
688
Publisher Name
National Geographic Books
ISBN-10
0375714367
ISBN-13
9780375714368
citemno
135407
Edition
First Edition
SKU
9780375714368

Description

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • 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) is an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home.