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Cutting For Stone: The multi-million copy bestseller from the author of Oprah’s Book Club pick The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese
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Description for Cutting For Stone: The multi-million copy bestseller from the author of Oprah’s Book Club pick The Covenant of Water
Paperback. Marion and Shiva Stone, born in a mission hospital in Ethiopia in the 1950s, are twin sons of an illicit union between an Indian nun and British doctor. Bound by birth but with widely different temperaments they grow up together, in a country on the brink of revolution, until a betrayal splits them apart. But fate has not finished with them. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 31. Weight in Grams: 404 541pp
Two surgeon brothers begin life in Ethiopia and face forbidden love, betrayal and murder in this enthralling saga that spans five decades and three continents.
'A huge, rich, ambitious tapestry of a novel...tremendous' The Times
'My brother, Shiva, and I came into the world in the late afternoon of the twentieth of September in the year of grace 1954. We took our first breaths in the thick air of Addis Ababa, capital city of Ethiopia.
Bound by birth, we were driven apart by bitter betrayal. No surgeon can heal the wound that would that divides two brothers. ... Read moreWhere silk and steel fail, story must succeed'
'There is a gravity and beauty in his writing that sets it apart from much contemporary fiction' Daily Telegraph
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Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
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About Abraham Verghese
Born and brought up of Indian parents in Ethiopia, Abraham Verghese qualified as a doctor in Madras and is currently professor of medicine at Stanford University, California. He is the author of My Own Country, an NBCC finalist made into a film directed by Mira Nair, and The Tennis Partner, a New York Times Notable Book. His essays and stories ... Read morehave appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Esquire, Granta, New York Times Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal. He lives in Palo Alto, California. Show Less
Reviews for Cutting For Stone: The multi-million copy bestseller from the author of Oprah’s Book Club pick The Covenant of Water
This huge, rich, ambitious tapestry of a novel makes insomnia a pleasure...tremendous
The Times
There is a gravity and beauty in his writing that sets it apart from much contemporary fiction
Daily Telegraph
Tremendous, compassionate, exuberant
Independent
The reader feels there really is something at stake - birth, love, death, war, loyalty
Guardian ... Read more
Tremendousm compassionate, exuberant
Michael Bywater
Independent
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