{"product_id":"cutting-for-stone-paperback","title":"Cutting for Stone - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAbraham Verghese\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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 \u003c\/p\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).\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbraham Verghese\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 688\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 26, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44301461520486,"sku":"9780375714368","price":27.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/d3JaTm44WGJROEtFd2hnTE5mVERMdz09.webp?v=1767419724","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/cutting-for-stone-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}