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A stunning debut novel from the author of My Own Country: an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, fathers and sons, doctors and patients, exile and home.
Knopf
February 2009
On Sale: February 3, 2009
Featuring: Marion Stone; Shiva Stone
560 pages
ISBN: 0375414495
EAN: 9780375414497
Hardcover
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Marion and Shiva Stone are twin scions 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 shared fascination with
medicine, the brothers come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the
brink of revolution. Yet it will not be politics, but
love—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 work as
an intern at an underfunded Bronx 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 father who abandoned him and the brother who
betrayed him. Cutting for Stone—intensely suspenseful, deeply moving, and
unexpectedly funny—is both 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.
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