Cutting for Stone

With over one million copies sold, Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese is the international best-seller. An enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home — a sweeping, emotionally riveting novel.

Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother's death in childbirth and their father's disappearance, the twins grow up as Ethiopia is on the verge of revolution, united by a preternatural bond and a shared fascination with medicine. However, it will be love, not politics, that will tear them apart and force Marion, fresh out of medical school, to flee his homeland. He travels to America, where he finds refuge as an intern at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. Marion must entrust his life to the two men he thought he trusted the least in the world when the past catches up with him and nearly destroys him: the surgeon father who abandoned him and the brother who betrayed him.

Cutting for Stone tell about an unforgettable journey through one man's remarkable life, as well as an epic story about the power, intimacy, and strange beauty of healing others. It is one of the best books to read in your 30s.

Author: Abraham Verghese

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0307357783?tag=prhca-20