![]() Shows how history and landscape and accidents of birth conspire to create the story of a single life. The kind Richard Russo or Cormac McCarthy might write. The writing is graceful, the characters compassionate and the story full of nuggets of wisdom." Verghese expertly weaves the threads of numerous story lines into one cohesive opus. Not a word is wasted in this larger-than-life saga. ![]() Verghese is something of a magician as a novelist." Filled with mystical scenes and deeply felt characters. This sweeping, emotionally riveting novel that "shows how history and landscape and accidents of birth conspire to create the story of a single life" ( Los Angeles Times). 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. 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. Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. ![]() ![]() Verghese is something of a magician as a novelist." - USA Today "Filled with mystical scenes and deeply felt characters. Description NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the author of The Covenant of Water An enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. ![]()
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