Abraham Verghese has ventured into the world of fiction - and he has scored a home run!! His new book, Cutting for Stone, is a brilliant novel about a family of doctors, Indian by birth, living in Ethiopia in the time of change - from the 1950s into the 1970s. Twins are born to a beautiful Indian nun and a surgeon who runs the mission hospital in Addis Ababa. The boys are raised by a mother and father who love them dearly. The birth father, Thomas Stone, is the spector that rises throughout the book. The reader feels so connected with the boys, their parents, their cultural background, the birth father and their dead mother, who died of childbirth. It is a story that you don't want to see end - and the characters live on in your life in so many ways.
My favorite book of the week
Abraham Verghese has ventured into the world of fiction - and he has scored a home run!! His new book, Cutting for Stone, is a brilliant novel about a family of doctors, Indian by birth, living in Ethiopia in the time of change - from the 1950s into the 1970s. Twins are born to a beautiful Indian nun and a surgeon who runs the mission hospital in Addis Ababa. The boys are raised by a mother and father who love them dearly. The birth father, Thomas Stone, is the spector that rises throughout the book. The reader feels so connected with the boys, their parents, their cultural background, the birth father and their dead mother, who died of childbirth. It is a story that you don't want to see end - and the characters live on in your life in so many ways.
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