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Amazon.com Review Amazon Exclusive: John Irving Reviews Cutting for Stone Cutting for Stone : That Cutting for Stone is a remarkable achievement._--John Irving_ (Photo © Maki Galimberti) From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Lauded for his sensitive memoir (_My Own Country_) about his time as a doctor in eastern Tennessee at the onset of the AIDS epidemic in the 80s, Verghese turns his formidable talents to fiction, mining his own life and experiences in a magnificent, sweeping novel that moves from India to Ethiopia to an inner-city hospital in New York City over decades and generations. Sister Mary Joseph Praise, a devout young nun, leaves the south Indian state of Kerala in 1947 for a missionary post in Yemen. During the arduous sea voyage, she saves the life of an English doctor bound for Ethiopia, Thomas Stone, who becomes a key player in her destiny when they meet up again at Missing Hospital in Addis Ababa. Seven years later, Sister Praise dies birthing twin boys: Shiva and Marion, the latter narrating his own and his brothers long, dramatic, biblical story set against the backdrop of political turmoil in Ethiopia, the life of the hospital compound in which they grow

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Author

Verghese, A. (Abraham)

Publisher

Vintage Books; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780375714368

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

4.28 / 5 (10,614 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13