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From the author of The Covenant Of Water: an enthralling family saga of Africa 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)."The ambition is laudable, but too often accounts of operations - a bowel obstruction here, a vasectomy there - overwhelm the narrative. Characterization suffers." - Kirkus ReviewsMarion 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. "Masterful... Verghese’s gripping narrative moves over decades and generations from India to Ethiopia to an inner-city hospital in New York, describing the cultural and spiritual pull of these places... Even wi

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Author

Abraham Verghese, A. Verghese

Publisher

New York: Vintage Books

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307271341

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

4.28 / 5 (10,614 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14