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Name: Cutting for Stone

Author: Abraham Verghese
Year: 2009
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Popularity: 8.9
Genres/categories: Award winners
Culture: Africa

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ISBN:
9780307271341
9780307357779
9781407065557
0307357775
Winner of the BookBrowse award for Best Debut Book in 2009.
Winner of the Indies Choice Book Award for Adult Fiction in 2010.

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. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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