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Genre/Form: | Domestic fiction Fictional Work Miscellaneous fiction Historical fiction Fiction |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
A Verghese |
ISBN: | 9780375414497 0375414495 0375714367 9780375714368 |
OCLC Number: | 229027345 |
Description: | 541 pages ; 24 cm |
Responsibility: | Abraham Verghese. |
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"A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel -- an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. 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. Orphaned by their mother's death in childbirth 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. Yet it will be love, not politics -- their passion for the same woman -- that will tear them apart and force Marion, fresh out of medical school, to flee his homeland. He makes his way to America, finding refuge in his work as an intern at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. When the past catches up to him -- nearly destroying him -- Marion must entrust his life to the two men he thought he trusted least in the world: the surgeon father who abandoned him and the brother who betrayed him."--Jacket.
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"A human story that is deeply moving, utterly gripping, and, indeed, unforgettable. Cutting for Stone is as noble and dramatic as that ancient practice-medicine-that lies at the heart of this magnificent novel" * John Burnham Schwartz, author of The Commoner and Reservation Road * Read more...
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