Cutting for Stone: A Novel - Softcover

Verghese, Abraham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375714367 ISBN 13: 9780375714368

Publisher: Vintage, 2010

Synopsis

A sweeping, emotionally riveting novel with over one million copies sold--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. 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.

About this title

Review:

"A winner. . . . Filled with mystical scenes and deeply felt characters. . . . Verghese is something of a magician as a novelist."
--USA Today

"A masterpiece. . . . Not a word is wasted in this larger-than-life saga. . . . Verghese expertly weaves the threads of numerous story lines into one cohesive opus. The writing is graceful, the characters compassionate and the story full of nuggets of wisdom."
--San Francisco Chronicle

"Lush and exotic. . . . The kind [of novel] Richard Russo or Cormac McCarthy might write. . . . Shows how history and landscape and accidents of birth conspire to create the story of a single life. . . . Verghese creates this story so lovingly that it is actually possible to live within it for the brief time one spends with this book. You may never leave the chair."
--Los Angeles Times

"Vivid. . . . Cutting for Stone shines."
--The Washington Post Book World

"Absorbing, exhilarating. . . . If you're hungry for an epic . . . open the covers of Cutting for Stone, [then] don't expect to do much else."
--The Seattle Times

"Wildly imaginative. . . . Verghese has the rare gift of showing his characters in different lights as the story evolves, from tragedy to comedy to melodrama, with an ending that is part Dickens, part Grey's Anatomy. The novel works as a family saga, but it is also something more, a lovely ode to the medical profession."
--Entertainment Weekly

"Compelling. . . . Readers will put this novel down at book's end knowing that it will stick with them for a long time to come."
--St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"The novel is full of compassion and wise vision. . . . I feel I changed forever after reading this book, as if an entire universe had been illuminated for me. It's an astonishing accomplishment to make such a foreign world familiar to a reader by the book's end."
--Sandra Cisneros, San Antonio Express-News

"Tremendous. . . . Vivid and thrilling. . . . I feel lucky to have gotten to read it."
--Atul Gawande

"The first novel from physician Verghese displays the virtues so evident in his bestselling and much-lauded memoirs. He has a knack for well-structured scenes, a passion for medicine and a gift for communicating that passion."
--Cleveland Plain-Dealer

"Fantastic. . . . Written with a lyrical flair, told through a compassionate first-person point of view, and rich with medical insight and information, [Cutting for Stone] makes for a memorable read."
--Houston Chronicle

"Vastly entertaining and enlightening."
--Tracy Kidder

Book Description:

An enthralling international epic novel - the unforgettable story of twin brothers born in Ethiopia of the secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a British doctor, and the choices each of them must face as they grow to manhood.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0375714367
• ISBN 13: 9780375714368
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 688