Cutting For Stone

Key note: A sweeping epic tale that moves over decades and generations from India to Ethiopia to an inner-city 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 mother's death 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. 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. About the Author: Abraham Verghese Abraham Verghese is a physician and the author of two acclaimed books of non-fiction, 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 'Verghese's achievement is to make the reader feel there really is something at stake-birth, love, death, war, loyalty'- The Guardian 'An epic story of love and longing-set on three continents over five decades'- The Week Cutting for Stone's 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 novel's strength lies in i