Neptune City, NJ: Vintage Books. Fine. 2009. Trade Paperback. 667 pages. 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 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.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. .

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An enthralling, exotic saga spanning five decades and three continents, rife with forbidden love and desire; betrayals, murder, medicine and family secrets.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.

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On Feb 23 2014, a reader said:

This book was a great read by a prize-winning author who is also a surgeon. I enjoyed it as a page-turner but at the same time I learned a great deal about Ethiopia in Haile Selassi's time.

On Jan 8 2011, Fict said:

Initially, I wasn't certain if I'd like this book, as I'm a bit put off by "medically" things. In the end, this book was a brilliant work by an extraordinary writer.

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Bookseller: Storbeck's (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 609598
Title: Cutting for Stone
Author: Verghese, Abraham
Format/Binding: Trade Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0375714367
ISBN 13: 9780375714368
Publisher: Vintage Books
Place of Publication: Neptune City, NJ
Date Published: 2009
Keywords: FICTION, LITERARY
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction / Literary;

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