The release date for the English version of 'Cutting for Stone' by
Abraham Verghese is Feb 2009. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
An engrossing family drama of Africa and America, physicians and patients, exile and home, this debut book is broad and emotionally gripping.
At a mission hospital in Addis Ababa, a stunning Indian nun and a brazen British surgeon had a covert relationship that resulted in the twin boys Marion and Shiva Stone. The twins, who are orphaned when their father vanishes and their mother dies giving birth, grow up in Ethiopia as a revolution is about to occur. They are connected by a supernatural bond and a curiosity with medicine. However, love—their shared devotion for the same woman—will be the driving force behind their breakup and the reason Marion, a recent medical school graduate, must leave his own country. He travels to the United States and takes solace in his internship in an overcrowded, underfunded hospital in New York City. Marion has to put his life in the hands of the two persons he thought he could trust the least in the world—his brother who betrayed him and his father, a surgeon—when the past finally comes up with him and threatens to kill him.
An incredible voyage inside the extraordinary life of one guy, as well as an epic tale about the strength, closeness, and strange beauty of helping others recover.
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