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Cutting for Stone


A Literary Fiction Novel


Subgenres:

  • Family Saga,
  • Coming-of-Age,
  • Medical Fiction
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Family sagas set across Ethiopia and America
  • Medical drama woven with secrets and betrayals
  • Stories of twins with deep, complicated bonds
Publisher Description

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A beautifully written, page-turning family saga of Ethiopia and America, doctors and patients, exile and home.

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.

Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles—and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.

This sweeping, emotionally riveting novel that shows how history and landscape and accidents of birth conspire to create the story of a single life.

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