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Abraham Verghese
ISBN: 9780099443636
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Vintage
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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.
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 - they will be brought together once more, in the sterile surroundings of a hospital theatre. From the 1940s to the present, from a convent in India to a cargo ship bound for the Yemen, from a tiny operating theatre in Ethiopia to a hospital in the Bronx, this is both a richly visceral epic and a riveting family story.
| ISBN | 0099443635 | | Pages | 560 | | ISBN13 | 9780099443636
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 380 | | Publisher | Vintage | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Vintage | | Height (mm) | 197 | | Format | Paperback | | Width (mm) | 130 | | Publication date | 26 Dec 2009 | | Spine width (mm) | 35 | | DEWEY | 813.6 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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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 Blackwell review: This is Verghese's first novel and I am definitely looking forward to his next. A moving book which takes you back and forth fron Addis Ababa to the Bronx through the hatred and redemption between Marion and Shiva Stone: two thin brothers, doctors, working and living in completely different worlds.
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