Paperback, 670 pages
English language
Published Jan. 4, 2010 by Vintage Books.
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. --back cover
"He was teaching me how to die, just as he had taught me how to live." Gripping surgical story, technical but not clinical, made me want to visit Addis Ababa, and pulls back to the hard choices of love.
