Very good standard used condition book with the text inside being clean and unmarked exterior of the book shows moderate signs of usage fulfillment by amazon fba is a service we offer sellers that lets them store their products in amazons fulfillment centers, and we directly pack, ship, and provide customer service for these. A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novelan enthralling f. The plot of this big, dense book is fairly straightforward. Published in 2009 by vintage, cutting for stone is abraham vergheses debut novel. Thomas stone, who becomes a key player in her destiny. Marion and shiva stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful indian nun and a brash british surgeon at a mission hospital in addis ababa. The washington post book world absorbing, exhilarating. Goodreads members who liked cutting for stone also liked. The book includes a deep description of both medical procedures and. When first published, the novel was on the the new york times best seller list for two years and generally received well by critics. If you like cutting for stone you might like similar books hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet, state of wonder, the invention of wings, the poisonwood bible, snow flower and the secret fan.
Ive been telling everybody to read this superb novel from abraham verghese. Cutting for stone by abraham verghese, 9780375714368, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. It is refreshing on every level from the setting ethiopia to its characters indian medical workers, twin boys borne of a nun to a complex web of storylines that covers every emotional base. Cutting for stone is abraham vergheses big, bloated panorama of 20th century ethiopia, where medicine and religion meet, and surgeons and carmelite nuns procreate. Marion and shiva stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a. Find books like cutting for stone from the worlds largest community of readers. Marion and shiva stone are twin brothers born of secret union between a beautiful indian nun and a brash british surgeon.
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Cutting for stone by abraham verghese book cover, description, publication. 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 miraclesand two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined. In one of the characters, doctor ghosh the heros foster father. Cutting for stone throughout the month of march, npr books will be running an online discussion about abraham vergheses novel cutting for stone.
Cutting for stone by abraham verghese, 9780099443636, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Marion and shiva stone are born one dramatic afternoon in 1954 in addis ababa, the same day their mother a nun, sister mary joseph. Cutting for stone kindle edition by verghese, abraham. A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novelan enthralling family saga of africa and america, doctors and patients, exile and home. Cutting for stone is a novel written by ethiopianborn indianamerican medical doctor and author abraham verghese. The book includes a deep description of both medical procedures and explores the human side of medical practices. Cutting for stone the phrase is from the hippocratic oath is about twins born joined at the head, in a mission hospital in addis ababa half a century ago.
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