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Also by Abraham Verghese:

Cutting for Stone, February 2010
Hardcover
Cutting For Stone, February 2009
Hardcover
My Own Country, May 1995
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CUTTING FOR STONE
By: Abraham Verghese

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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Diane Rehm Show - NPR - December 25, 2009
All Things Considered - December 16, 2009
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