A sweeping, emotionally riveting novel with over one million copies soldβan 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. Orphaned b
Cutting for stone: a novel
β Scribed by Abraham Verghese
- Publisher
- Vintage Books;Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 411 KB
- Edition
- 1st Vintage books ed
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York;Bronx (New York;N.Y.);Ethiopia;Bronx
- ISBN
- 030727134X
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β¦ Synopsis
A sweeping, emotionally riveting novel with over one million copies soldβan 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. Orphaned by their motherβs death and their fatherβs 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 miraclesβand two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.
Source: penguinrandomhouse.com
β¦ Subjects
Literary Fiction
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