Cutting for Stone

Key note: A sweeping epic tale that moves over decades and generations from India to Ethiopia to an innercity hospital in New York City. About the Book: Cutting for Stone Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mothers death and their fathers disappearance and 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. 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. About the Author: Abraham Verghese Abraham Verghese is a physician and the author of two acclaimed books of nonfiction, The Tennis Partner and My Own Country. A Malayali, he was born and raised in Ehiopia. Dr Verghese attended Madras Christian College and later Madras Medical College, and since then has studied and worked in the USA. He is currently Professor of Internal Medicine and Senior Associate Chair of the Department of Medicine at Stanford University. A graduate of Iowa Writers Workshop, his essays and short stories have appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Granta. He lives in Palo Alto, California. Reviews Vergheses achievement is to make the reader feel there really is something at stakebirth, love, death, war, loyalty The Guardian An epic story of love and longingset on three continents over five decades The Week Cutting for Stones canvas is very vast, straddling two continents, and several experiences. Such a book could have easily unravelled but Verghese does a praiseworthy job of not just holding it together, but also doing justice to every character and situation Elle Achingly beautiful Mukund Padmanabhan, The Hindu Verghese is a delightful raconteur . . . the novels strength lies in i