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Cutting for stone : a novel / Abraham Verghese.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., [2010]Copyright date: ©2009Edition: First Vintage books editionDescription: 667 pages : maps ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780375714368
  • 0375714367
  • 9781442095922
  • 144209592X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Awards:
  • Indies Choice Book of the Year Award: Adult fiction, 2010.
Summary: Twin brothers born from a secret love affair between an Indian nun and a British surgeon in Addis Ababa, Marion and Shiva Stone come of age in Ethiopia, where their love for the same woman drives them apart.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library Fiction Verghese A. Checked out 05/20/2024 33111005851924
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction VERGHESE ABRAHAM Checked out 05/30/2024 33111011227259
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From the author of The Covenant of Water : A beautifully written, page-turning family saga of Ethiopia and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. * "Filled with mystical scenes and deeply felt characters.... Verghese is something of a magician as a novelist." -- USA Today

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, 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.

This sweeping, emotionally riveting novel that "shows how history and landscape and accidents of birth conspire to create the story of a single life" ( Los Angeles Times ).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 669-670).

Twin brothers born from a secret love affair between an Indian nun and a British surgeon in Addis Ababa, Marion and Shiva Stone come of age in Ethiopia, where their love for the same woman drives them apart.

Indies Choice Book of the Year Award: Adult fiction, 2010.

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