Abraham Verghese

<b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the author of <i>The Covenant of Water</i>: A beautifully written, page-turning family saga of <b>Ethiopia </b>and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. <b>- </b>"Filled with mystical scenes and deeply felt characters.... Verghese is something of a magician as a novelist."&#160;-<i>USA Today</i></b><br/><br/>Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother's death 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. <br/><br/>Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, <i>Cutting for Stone</i> is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles-and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.<br/>&#160;<br/>This sweeping, emotionally riveting novel that&#160;"shows how history and landscape and accidents of birth conspire to create the story of a single life" (<i>Los Angeles Times</i>).