Vintage Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese

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Marion and Shiva, born in Ethiopia in the 1950s, are the illicit twins of an Indian nun and British doctor. With wildly different temperaments, they grow up in a country on the brink of revolution, until a betrayal splits them apart. But fate will bring them together again. Spans the 1940s to the present day, from a convent in India to a cargo ship, an operating theatre in Ethiopia to a hospital in the Bronx. An exotic saga full of forbidden love and desire, betrayal, murder, medicine and family secrets. Publikace: Cutting for Stone - Verghese, A.. 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 would that divides two brothers. Where silk and steel fail, story must succeed. To begin at the beginning... Publikace: Cutting for Stone - Verghese, A.. CCV: `richly entertaining novel' --Sunday Times Skilful storytelling and fluid prose. -- Irish Times, review`There is a... 'This huge, rich, ambitious tapestry of a novel makes insomnia a pleasure...tremendous' The Times