Author: Abraham Verghese
Year: 2009
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Award winners, Fiction, Historical fiction
Culture: Africa
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9780375414497
9780375714368
0375414495 |
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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. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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