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Cutting for Stone
by Abraham Verghese
Type: Paperback, Hardback, Kindle
Category: Literature, Drama
Keywords: Africa, Ethiopia, surgery, medical drama,
"Twin brothers Marion and Shiva Stone are born of a tragic union between an Indian nun and a British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother's death in childbirth and their father's 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.But it is love, their passion for the same woman and not politics that will tear them apart, forcing Marion to flee his homeland and make his way to the United States, where he finds refuge in his work at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. When the past catches up to him, wreaking havoc and destruction, Marion has to entrust his life to the two men he has trusted least in the world. "
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