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Over One Million Copies Sold. National Bestseller. 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, <i>Cutting for Stone</i> is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles--and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House USA Inc, Random House Inc
ISBN-100375714367
ISBN-139780375714368
eBay Product ID (ePID)183148510
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FormatTrade Paperback (Us) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound, Paperback / Softback
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral & Literary Fiction
AuthorAbraham Verghese
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Place of PublicationNew York
Country of PublicationUnited States
Author Biography<b>Abraham Verghese</b> is Professor and Senior Associate Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was the founding director of the Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, where he is now an adjunct professor. He is the author of<i></i><b>My Own Country</b><i>, </i> a 1994 NBCC Finalist and a<i> Time</i> Best Book of the Year, and<i></i><b>The Tennis Partner</b><i>, </i> a<i> New York Times</i> Notable Book. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he has published essays and short stories that have appeared in <i>The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Granta, The Wall Street Journal, </i> and elsewhere. He lives in Palo Alto, California.