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Cutting for Stone
by Verghese, Abraham
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0307357783
- ISBN 13
- 9780307357786
- Seller
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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Item Price
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About This Item
Vintage Canada, 2010. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. In Good Used Condition. For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. International Bestseller 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.
Synopsis
An enthralling, exotic saga spanning five decades and three continents, rife with forbidden love and desire; betrayals, murder, medicine and family secrets.Marion and Shiva Stone, born in a mission hospital in Ethiopia in the 1950s, are twin sons of an illicit union between an Indian nun and British doctor. Bound by birth but with widely different temperaments they grow up together, in a country on the brink of revolution, until a betrayal splits them apart. But fate has not finished with them – they will be brought together once more, in the sterile surroundings of a hospital theatre.From the 1940s to the present, from a convent in India to a cargo ship bound for the Yemen, from a tiny operating theatre in Ethiopia to a hospital in the Bronx, this is both a richly visceral epic and a riveting family story.
Reviews
On Feb 23 2014, a reader said:
This book was a great read by a prize-winning author who is also a surgeon. I enjoyed it as a page-turner but at the same time I learned a great deal about Ethiopia in Haile Selassi's time.
On Jan 8 2011, Fict said:
Initially, I wasn't certain if I'd like this book, as I'm a bit put off by "medically" things. In the end, this book was a brilliant work by an extraordinary writer.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alright Bookstore
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003003
- Title
- Cutting for Stone
- Author
- Verghese, Abraham
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0307357783
- ISBN 13
- 9780307357786
- Publisher
- Vintage Canada
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2010
- Pages
- 688
- Keywords
- Historical Fiction, Literature, Good Reads, Crime, Vintage Fiction, Vintage Novel, Realistic Fiction, Adventure, Middle Grade, Read For School, Teen Lit, Health, Medicine, Eastern Africa, Ethiopia, Medical, Africa, General, Literary
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
- X weight
- 0 g
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