Publication Date: 26/12/2009 ISBN: 9780099443636 Category:

Cutting For Stone

Abraham Verghese

Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication Date: 26/12/2009 ISBN: 9780099443636 Category:
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Two surgeon brothers begin life in Ethiopia and face forbidden love, betrayal and murder in this enthralling saga that spans five decades and three continents.

‘A huge, rich, ambitious tapestry of a novel…tremendous’ The Times

‘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 wound that would that divides two brothers. Where silk and steel fail, story must succeed’

‘There is a gravity and beauty in his writing that sets it apart from much contemporary fiction’ Daily Telegraph

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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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