by Abraham Verghese · Vintage Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099443636
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«Cutting for Stone» is the historical fiction novel by Abraham Verghese, published by Vintage Books in paperback (560 pages, in English).
Marion and Shiva Stone are born in a mission hospital in Ethiopia in the 1950s, children of a secret relationship between an Indian nun and a British doctor. They grow up in a country on the brink of revolution, a betrayal separates them, and fate reunites them in an operating room. A family saga spanning decades and continents, from India to the Bronx.
Paperback edition published in 2009; the novel won the Indies Choice Book Award 2010 in the Adult Fiction category.
Aimed at book clubs and readers of historical fiction, family sagas, and novels with a medical backdrop.
Abraham Verghese is an Ethiopian-American physician and author. He is the Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor of Medicine, Vice Chair for the Theory & Practice of Medicine, and Internal Medicine Clerkship Director at Stanford Medical School. He is also the author of four best-selling books: two memoirs and two novels. He is the co-host with Eric Topol of the Medscape podcast Medicine and the Machine.
