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Original Title:	Cutting for Stone
ISBN:	0375414495 (ISBN13: 9780375414497)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Thomas Stone, Sister Mary Joseph Praise, Marion Stone, Shiva Stone
Setting:	Addis Ababa(Ethiopia) Madras(India) Kochi(India) …more Aden(Yemen) Djibouti Asmara(Eritrea) Khartoum(Sudan) Nairobi(Kenya) New York City, New York(United States) Boston, Massachusetts(United States) Rome(Italy) …less
Literary Awards:	PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award Nominee (2010), Exclusive Books Boeke Prize Nominee (2011), Indies Choice Book Award for Adult Fiction (2010), Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Fiction (2010), Wellcome Book Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2009) Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2009)

Cutting for Stone

Abraham Verghese

Hardcover | Pages: 541 pages

Rating: 4.29 | 327937 Users | 24978 Reviews

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Title	:	Cutting for Stone
Author	:	Abraham Verghese
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 541 pages
Published	:	February 3rd 2009 by Alfred A. Knopf (first published 2009)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Mystery. Fiction

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A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel—an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother’s death in childbirth 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. Yet it will be love, not politics—their passion for the same woman—that will tear them apart and force Marion, fresh out of medical school, to flee his homeland. He makes his way to America, finding refuge in his work as an intern at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. When the past catches up to him—nearly destroying him—Marion must entrust his life to the two men he thought he trusted least in the world: the surgeon father who abandoned him and the brother who betrayed him. An unforgettable journey into one man’s remarkable life, and an epic story about the power, intimacy, and curious beauty of the work of healing others. (front flap)

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Recently in San Francisco I attended a reading by Abraham Verghese, who has written my favorite book of the year: CUTTING FOR STONE. I'd gotten it from the library, and after @150 pages was so in love with it that when I heard he was going to be at the store, I returned the library copy (there's a huge line waiting for it), and bought a copy just to have the pleasure of his signature. We actually had a little chat after the reading, while he happened by on his way to his car. He asked why I'd

FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!I'm back again --(my friend Debbie told me I could 'edit' my own review')...I want to say 'something' about this book again. I've given many 5 stars on books I've read ---which then makes THIS book a 5 ++++ star book!Its exceptional! Every book club in the Bay Area was reading it at one time. The author 'always' had PACKED FULL rooms of people coming to hear him speak on this book. (I heard him speak twice).Much could be discussed about this wonderful novel. Note: There are

All the stars! I loved this story!

Such a great book..,

Cutting for Stone was like a challenging round of golf for me.Sorry for the analogy, but here goes for anyone who has never played the most enjoyable, yet frustrating sport ever invented. I grew up playing all sorts of sports: tennis, softball, volleyball, etc. With most sports you can have a great game, but one error can ruin your enjoyment and subsequent memory of that experience.Conversely, most of us suck big time at golf. We hook, we slice, we lose ball after ball and yet if all we have is

Update I didn't like the writing of this book at all, but now, after reading the Verghese's foreword to When Breath Becomes Air and being unable to get over the florid and verbose writing of that either and other people agreeing with that, I just wonder how so many people enjoyed the very similar writing in this book._____I tried to read this book several times but it didn't hold my attention at all. I just couldn't get into it. I realise that I am in a minority among friends for not swooning