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Cutting for Stone: A Novel (Vintage) Book

Cutting for Stone : Paperback : Random House USA Inc : 9780375714368 : 0375714367 : 26 Jan 2010 : A stunning debut novel from the author of "My Own Country, Cutting for Stone"" offers an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, fathers and sons, doctors and patients, exile and home."Read More

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    Amazon Exclusive: John Irving Reviews Cutting for Stone

    John Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times--winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. In 1992, Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules--a film with seven Academy Award nominations. Read his exclusive Amazon guest review of Cutting for Stone:

    That Abraham Verghese is a doctor and a writer is already established; the miracle of this novel is how organically the two are entwined. I’ve not read a novel wherein medicine, the practice of it, is made as germane to the storytelling process, to the overall narrative, as the author manages to make it happen here. The medical detail is stunning, but it never overwhelms the humane and narrative aspects of this moving and ambitious novel. This is a first-person narration where the first-person voice appears to disappear, but never entirely; only in the beginning are we aware that the voice addressing us is speaking from the womb! And what terrific characters--even the most minor players are given a full history. There is also a sense of great foreboding; by the midpoint of the story, one dreads what will further befall these characters. The foreshadowing is present in the chapter titles, too--â??The School of Suffering’ not least among them! Cutting for Stone is a remarkable achievement.--John Irving

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  • Product Description

    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 miraclesâ??and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.

  • 0375714367
  • 9780375714368
  • Abraham Verghese
  • 26 January 2010
  • Vintage Books USA
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 688
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