02507cam a2200445 i 4500 433400340 TxAuBib 20181107120000.0 080624s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2008028252 9780375414497 0375414495 (OCoLC)229027345 DLC eng DLC BTCTA BAKER YDXCP ABG C#P CDX BWX UPZ CQU INU VRC ALAUL ZWZ BDX TXBXL OCLCQ OCLCF LMR P4I VVL OCLCO HFU rda TxAuBib rda Verghese, A, 1955-, (Abraham.) Cutting for stone : a novel / Abraham Verghese. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. 541 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (page [543-544]). "A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel -- an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother's death in childbirth 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. Yet it will be love, not politics -- their passion for the same woman -- that will tear them apart and force Marion, fresh out of medical school, to flee his homeland. He makes his way to America, finding refuge in his work as an intern at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. When the past catches up to him -- nearly destroying him -- Marion must entrust his life to the two men he thought he trusted least in the world: the surgeon father who abandoned him and the brother who betrayed him."--Jacket. 20181107. Physicians Fiction. Physicians. Brothers Fiction. Brothers. Fathers and sons Fiction. Fathers and sons. Médecins Roman. Ethiopia Fiction. Ethiopia. Bronx (New York, N.Y) Fiction. New York (State) New York Bronx. Fictional Works. Fiction. Miscellaneous fiction.