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 … 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.
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A unique story and set of characters, set in what is for most people a little known time and place: Ethiopia in the 1930s. Some of the passages of exquisite and striking writing will stay with me for a long, long time.
Great story and well written.
Shares a Glimpse into Real Health Issues of a World Setting. Some tragic characters I found poignant.
Read this on my first kindle. I learned a great deal. The author is a doctor and the book had detail. The plight of these young women made me cry but I learnedalot. LC NY