Cutting for Stone: A Novel

Abraham Verghese

févr. 2009 · Penguin Random House Audio · Lu par Sunil Malhotra

À propos de ce livre audio

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of The Covenant of Water: A beautifully written, page-turning family saga of Ethiopia and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. • “Filled with mystical scenes and deeply felt characters.... Verghese is something of a magician as a novelist.” —USA Today

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.
 
This sweeping, emotionally riveting novel that "shows how history and landscape and accidents of birth conspire to create the story of a single life" (Los Angeles Times).

À propos de l'auteur

ABRAHAM VERGHESE is the author of NBCC Award finalist My Own Country, New York Times Notable Book The Tennis Partner, and Cutting for Stone, which spent 107 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, was translated into more than twenty languages, and is being adapted for film by Anonymous Content. His most recent novel is New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club pick The Covenant of Water. Verghese was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2016, has received five honorary degrees, and is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He lives and practices medicine in Stanford, California, where he is the Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine.