{"product_id":"cutting-for-stone-9780375714368","title":"Cutting for Stone","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Covenant of Water\u003c\/i\u003e A beautifully written, page-turning family saga of \u003cb\u003eEthiopia \u003c\/b\u003eand America, doctors and patients, exile and home. \u003cb\u003e- \u003c\/b\u003e\"Filled with mystical scenes and deeply felt characters.... Verghese is something of a magician as a novelist.\" --\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMarion 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, \u003ci\u003eCutting for Stone\u003c\/i\u003e is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles--and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis sweeping, emotionally riveting novel that \"shows how history and landscape and accidents of birth conspire to create the story of a single life\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eABRAHAM VERGHESE is Professor and Vice Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The founding director of the Center for Medical Humanities \u0026amp; Ethics at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, he is the author of\u003ci\u003e My Own Country, \u003c\/i\u003e a 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist and a\u003ci\u003e Time\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year; \u003ci\u003eThe Tennis Partner, \u003c\/i\u003e a\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book; and, most recently, the critically acclaimed novel \u003ci\u003eCutting for Stone, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was a national bestseller. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, his essays and short stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003eNew York Times, \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003eAtlantic Monthly, Esquire, Granta, \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003eWall Street Journal, \u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere. In 2016 Verghese received a National Humanities Medal from President Obama. He lives in Palo Alto, California.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50569003729170,"sku":"9780375714368","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9de58efe-5461-4e89-b9a6-109c291cfb2b.jpg?v=1731953575","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/cutting-for-stone-9780375714368","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}