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 ,...

Feb 08, 2009 0183 32 The Coming After eight months spent in the obscurity of our mother s womb, my brother, Shiva, and I came into the world in the late afternoon of the twentieth of ,...

To read the first page of Cutting for Stone is to fall hopelessly under the spell of a masterful storyteller and to try to close the book thereafter is to tear oneself away from the most vivid of dreams...

I would give CUTTING FOR STONE twenty stars if I could Every so often a book comes along that you just know will stay with you and this is one The story unfolds in hospital in a burgeoning town somewhere in Ethiopia...

However, the book s title CUTTING FOR STONE may indicate the danger and risk inherent in familiar love The surgeon in the book is a Doctor Stone and his two estranged sons become doctors less...

Cutting for Stone By Abraham Verghese , Your previous two books are non-fiction, but you ve said that you have always thought of yourself as a fiction writer first How so? Fiction is truly my first love To paraphrase Dorothy Allison, fiction is the great lie that tells the truth about how the...

Cutting For Stone is very simply one of the best books ever written and read The narrative begins in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, when twin boys, Shiva and Marion, are born to a ,...

Feb 08, 2009 0183 32 Abraham Verghese Credit Joanne Chan Verghese is a physician and an already accomplished author His two nonfiction books, My Own Country, about ,...

Cutting for Stone 2009 is a novel written by Ethiopian-born Indian-American medical doctor and author Abraham VergheseIt is a saga of twin brothers, orphaned by their mother s death at their births and forsaken by their father...

Cutting for Stone is a tremendous accomplishment The writing is vivid and thrilling, and the story completely absorbing, with its pregnant Indian nun, demon-ridden British surgeon, Siamese twins orphaned and severed at birth, and narrative strands stretching across four continents...

Cutting for Stone - the phrase is from the Hippocratic oath - is about twins born joined at the head, in a mission hospital in Addis Ababa half a century ago , This is a book narrated by a ....

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An epic tale about love, abandonment, betrayal and redemption, Abraham Verghese s first novel, Cutting for Stone, is a masterpiece of traditional storytelling...

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Abraham Verghese, MD, MACP, is Professor for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Senior Associate Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine...

PBR Book Review At 500 pages it certainly is a long book, but worth every second, earning five stars rating from this reader Cutting For Stone is a sweeping family saga which draws you in and transports you to a small missionary hospital in Ethiopia...

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese is a popular literary novel that tells the story of a nun in Ethiopia who has twin boys The story is bursting with themes of loss, reconciliation, and redemption...

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Jan 25, 2013 0183 32 Cutting for Stone is an ambitious novel which allows Abraham Verghese to show his virtuosic ability to weave history, geography, medicine, religion, and politics together with family relationships, friendships, ethics, humanity, and spirituality...

Chapter two of Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese, is titled The Missing Finger, and we learn how Dr Thomas Stone, a surgeon, lost one of his fingers As a surgeon, Stone was famous for....

Cutting for Stone resists easy categorization -- it is just as much the chronicle of a bond between twin brothers and family as it is a book about medicine, or a story of grace...

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