Cutting for StoneNATIONAL 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). |
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... thing you can possibly do?” she said when I went to her for advice on the darkest day of the first half of my life. I squirmed. How easily Matron probed the gap between ambition and expediency. “Why must I do what is hardest?” “Because ...
... thing you can possibly do?” she said when I went to her for advice on the darkest day of the first half of my life. I squirmed. How easily Matron probed the gap between ambition and expediency. “Why must I do what is hardest?” “Because ...
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... thing I could imagine. And so I became a surgeon. Thirty years later, I am not known for speed, or daring, or technical genius. Call me steady, call me plodding; say I adopt the style and technique that suits the patient and the ...
... thing I could imagine. And so I became a surgeon. Thirty years later, I am not known for speed, or daring, or technical genius. Call me steady, call me plodding; say I adopt the style and technique that suits the patient and the ...
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... thing her parents didn't know that she was also a nurse, which to them would mean that she soiled her hands like an untouchable. My mother grew up at the ocean's edge, in sight of the ancient Chinese fishing nets cantilevered from long ...
... thing her parents didn't know that she was also a nurse, which to them would mean that she soiled her hands like an untouchable. My mother grew up at the ocean's edge, in sight of the ancient Chinese fishing nets cantilevered from long ...
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... thing, as Sister Mary Joseph Praise saw it, but in pursuit of the right thing. His fierce passion had been a revelation to her. At the medical college hospital in Madras where she trained as a nurse, the civil surgeons (who at the time ...
... thing, as Sister Mary Joseph Praise saw it, but in pursuit of the right thing. His fierce passion had been a revelation to her. At the medical college hospital in Madras where she trained as a nurse, the civil surgeons (who at the time ...
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... thing to say, it allowed them all to breathe again. But Matron knew she was right. She would have to deliver this baby. Dr. K. Hemlatha— Hema to all of them—was out of station. Matron had delivered hundreds of babies. She reminded ...
... thing to say, it allowed them all to breathe again. But Matron knew she was right. She would have to deliver this baby. Dr. K. Hemlatha— Hema to all of them—was out of station. Matron had delivered hundreds of babies. She reminded ...
Contents
Part | |
Bedside Language and Bedroom Language | |
Lands | |
Praise in the Arms of Jesus | |
Knowledge of the Redeemer | |
Crookedness of the Serpent | |
A Time to Reap | |
One Fever from Another | |
Prognostic Signs | |
Exodus | |
Part Four | |
Welcome Wagon | |
The Cure for What Ails Thee | |
Salt and Pepper | |
Bride for a Year | |
Part Three | |
Tizita | |
Sins of the Father | |
Giving Dogs Their | |
Blind Mans Buff | |
Knowing What You Will Hear | |
The School of Suffering | |
The Afterbird and Other Animals | |
Loving the Dying | |
Anger as a Form of Love | |
The Face of Suffering | |
Answering Medicine | |
The Good Doctor | |
Abu Kassems Slippers | |
Word for Words | |
The Dominion of the Flesh | |
A Time to | |
A Form of Madness | |
One Knot at a Time | |
Bloodlines | |
Grand Rounds | |
Begin at the Beginning | |
A Matter of Time | |
Room with a View | |
Missing Letters | |
Five Fingers | |
Queens Move | |
Slit the Thew | |
The Devils Choice | |
A Pair of Unpaired Organs | |
She Is Coming | |
Homefires | |
The Afterbird | |
Acknowledgments | |
Bibliography | |
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Addis Ababa Almaz Amharic Anjali arms asked Asmara baby belly better blood breath brother Calangute called cheeks chest child couldn’t Deepak dicult doctor door Emperor Eritrean Ethiopia Ethiopian Airlines eyes face father feel felt fingers gaze Gebrew Genet Ghosh Haile Selassie hair hand happened he’d head heard heart Hema Hema and Ghosh Hema’s Hemlatha hospital injera khat knew Lady leave lips liver looked man’s Marion Mary Joseph Praise Matron Mebratu Merkato Missing Missing’s morning mother never night nurse ocer once Operating Theater patient Praise’s probationer pulled pushed Rosina scent she’d Shiva shoulder side silence Sister Mary Joseph skin sleep smiled sound stood stopped surgeon surgery taxi tell thing Thomas Stone thought told took Tsige tube turned twins voice waited walked wall wasn’t who’d woman words Zemui