Cutting for stone - Books.Infosec.Exchange

English language

Published Dec. 29, 2010

ISBN:: 978-0-375-71436-8

The story is a riveting saga of twin brothers, Marion and Shiva Stone, born of a tragic 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, and 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.

But it’s love, not politics – their passion for the same woman — that will tear them apart and force Marion to flee his homeland and make his way to America, finding refuge in his work at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. When the past catches up to him, wreaking havoc and destruction, Marion has to entrust his life to the two men he has trusted least in the world: the surgeon father who abandoned …

The story is a riveting saga of twin brothers, Marion and Shiva Stone, born of a tragic 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, and 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.

But it’s love, not politics – their passion for the same woman — that will tear them apart and force Marion to flee his homeland and make his way to America, finding refuge in his work at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. When the past catches up to him, wreaking havoc and destruction, Marion has to entrust his life to the two men he has trusted least in the world: the surgeon father who abandoned him and the brother who betrayed him. (Source)

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nanopas reviewed Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

shivamarion might have made me cry a little

5 stars

I'm glad I started the year with this. I spent my weekend on this and have no regrets. ShivaMarion had me invested in their story through and through. It was emotional without being melodramatic. The writing is poignant and poetic in places. I'd seen some people complain that medical procedures and ailments were described in an unnecessary amount of detail, but as someone interested in human anatomy, I found these details captivating. The only minor complaint I have is about not getting to see more of the twins' birth mother's perspective, but then this is not her story, anyway.