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Cutting For Stone [Paperback]

Abraham Verghese (Author)
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Publication Date: 26 Dec 2009

My brother, Shiva, and I came into the world in the late afternoon of the twentieth of September in the year of grace 1954. We took our first breaths in the thick air of Addis Ababa, capital city of Ethiopia.

Bound by birth, we were driven apart by bitter betrayal. No surgeon can heal the would that divides two brothers. Where silk and steel fail, story must succeed.

To begin at the beginning...

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  • Paperback: 560 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage; First Vintage Books Edition edition (26 Dec 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0099443635
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099443636
  • Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 3.5 x 19.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (147 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 524 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"This huge, rich, ambitious tapestry of a novel makes insomnia a pleasure...tremendous" (The Times )

"There is a gravity and beauty in his writing that sets it apart from much contemporary fiction" (Daily Telegraph )

"Tremendous, compassionate, exuberant" (Independent )

"The reader feels there really is something at stake - birth, love, death, war, loyalty" (Guardian )

"Tremendousm compassionate, exuberant" (Michael Bywater Independent )

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"Verghese, a doctor, has an affinity for unstinting detail and unscientific intuition...a poetic perception of the outside world." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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45 of 45 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars excellent storytelling 7 Feb 2010
By Lovely Treez TOP 500 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
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At 560 pages, this isn't a quick read but you won't regret investing your time in reading this immensely rewarding story. It is a very readable novel, almost family saga-like in its style and one which I was very sorry to finish.

Not for the squeamish, some sections are a bit like a busy night at ER, although obviously in a less Westernised setting. Ethiopia is vibrantly described and you really feel immersed in its culture and history. Somehow the story of the twins and their perhaps far fetched, almost Thorn Birds like conception doesn't impinge on the intense realism of this epic story which covers 50 years and several continents. The characters are all well developed and three dimensional and although the story is never overly sentimental you may need some tissues. The author doesn't overdo the twin theme but there is something so intriguing about twins and their relationships and I'm thinking more along the lines of Kane and Abel, Romulus and Remus rather than John and Edward of X Factor fame/infamy!

An intelligent and gripping story which will remain with you long after the final page has been turned - striking in its orginality and one which I will hope capture the imagination of a lot of readers.
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160 of 163 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful novel, a great political study, and a vivid medical narrative 27 July 2009
By Mr. P. Robbs
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Verghese brilliantly brings to life the Addis Ababa of the 1960s,'70s and '80s,a time of horrific political convulsions that transformed the ancient hidden Christian African empire of Haile Selassie's day into a Stalinist revolutionary hell under Mengistu, and to his regime's final collapse. Yet this is just the background, to a convincing and beautiful saga of passions and of family upheavals and torments, woven well into accounts of how a group of doctors are connected by relationship, rivalry and skills into a collective of dedicated men and women fighting to save life in a poor and war-torn third world country. It held me to the last full stop. Surprisingly, the book has attracted less attention in Britain than in the US. It deserves better from UK readers.
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61 of 62 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Cuts deep in every way. 21 Jan 2010
By Pen pal VINE™ VOICE
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I have never been to Ethiopia, but such was the writing I felt that I was there. Verghese makes the characters in his book come completely alive, and you begin to really care about them. It is the tale of twins, born in unusual circumstances, not least because their mother is a nun. Their subsequent childhood, in which they are raised within a very loving family by Hema and Ghosh, not their natural parents, sets the scene for all that is to come. Marion falls in love with a childhood friend, as good as a sister, but is ultimately betrayed by the two people he least expected. The betrayal has deep ramifications that ring out through the rest of time. This is an extremely moving novel, and I was not surprised to learn that the author is himself a surgeon, as he gives some fairly detailed accounts of various operations that take place. Needless to say, all the key characters in this book are surgeons or become surgeons. The skilled writing made me feel very involved in these medical procedures, and it was a genuinely fascinating journey into an area I have never read about in any detail. All I can say, is this book was an incredibly moving one, well-written and stays with you long after you have turned the last page.
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