Cutting for Stone
Twin brothers born in an Ethiopian mission hospital grow up among doctors as the country edges toward revolution.
Abraham Verghese, a physician born in Addis Ababa, set his novel in the city he was born in. Twins Marion and Shiva Stone are born to an Indian nun who dies in childbirth and a British surgeon who disappears. Two doctors raise them at a mission hospital nicknamed Missing. The book pairs detailed medical procedure with the human side of practice, and it stayed on the New York Times list for two years.
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