Abraham verghese was born in 1955 to welleducated, south indian, christian parents who migrated to ethiopia to teach. Those words provide an epigraph partway through abraham vergheses first novel, cutting for stone, and also explain the surname of its. Cutting for stone pdf by abraham verghese bookspdf4free. Excerpt from cutting for stone by abraham verghese, plus. Cutting for stone by abraham verghese a story of ethiopias past halfcentury impresses aida edemariam.
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He is also the author of three bestselling books, two memoirs and a novel. This is a long, ambitious novel, dickensian in its scope, detailing the not only the life of marion stone, but the struggling charity hospital in which he is raised, and the turmoil of ethiopia in the 1960s and 1970s. Cutting for stone 2009 is a novel written by ethiopianborn indianamerican medical doctor and author abraham verghese. After eight months spent in the obscurity of our mothers womb, my brother, shiva, and i came into the world in the late afternoon of the twentieth of september in the year of grace 1954. Cutting for stone by abraham verghese pdf free download. At first, i wasnt sure id like the book, as i expected it to be quite sad. Marion and shiva stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful indian nun and a brash british surgeon. Free download or read online the tennis partner pdf epub book.
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