Sun Chronicle - February 6, 2011
During the mandatory blood test for my marriage license, I fainted; years laster, after cheering my daughter while the docor ecised a mole from her bsck, I fainted; even today when a surgical procedure is sown on television, I turn away. But Abraham Verghese's novel. Similar to his protagonist in the novel, "Cutting for Stone," Verghese's...
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San Jose Mercury-News - February 2, 2011
Book Review: "Medicine is ultimately very much a human transaction," states Dr. Abraham Verghese, Stanford University's senior associate chair for the theory and practice of medicine.
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Sonoma Medicine - Winter 2011
In Part One of Cutting for Stone, Dr. Abraham Verghese, an American physician born in Ethiopia to Indian parents, orchestrates a dynamic and vivid convergence of developing characters that culminates in a violent operating room scene. Into this surgical spectacle is born Shiva, namesake of the Hindu god...
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Galveston County Daily News - November 28, 2010
'Cutting for Stone will entrance, delight readers' is the headline for this positive review from the Galveston County Daily News.

Louisville Courier-Journal - September 4, 2010
John Irving writes: "That Abraham Verghese is a doctor and a writer is already established; the miracle of this novel is how organically the two are entwined. I've not read a novel..."

Bookotron.com - July 5, 2010
Abraham Verghese Will Not Be 'Cutting for Stone'  Abraham Verghese doesn't waste any time. In the first sentence of Cutting for Stone, he lets us know we're in for an epic story that starts with the birth fo twins -- by a nun.
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Seattle Post Intelligencer - June 17, 2010
For readers who like the length, depth, and strength of a true saga, Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese is your story. Time wise, this absorbing novel covers a period of at least 25-30 years.
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Financial Times - May 11, 2009
In 1954 in Addis Ababa, an Indian nun, a nursing sister with a thing about Bernini, gives birth to identical twins who are attached at the head. This happens despite the best efforts of their father, the attending clinician, to crush their skulls in the birth...
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London's Independent - April 3, 2009
In medicine, there are times when one can do nothing. The novelist can always do something. But in both cases, and seldom better exemplified than in Verghese's lovely book, there is a heart to be uncovered. Literature is the story of the winner: the person who...

Sunday Times - March 19, 2009
The Hippocratic oath is often invoked by name, but few of us could quote a word from it. Most doctors are no exception because, contrary to popular belief, they don't have to take the oath before beginning to practise medicine. Abraham Verghese, who is a...

Los Angeles Times - March 4, 2009
A novel set in Africa bears a heavy burden. The author must bring it home, that continent, into the reader's more defined existence: To help the reader sit in a chair and imagine Africa; vast, ancient, sorrowful, beautiful Africa...

Dallas Morning News - February 15, 2009
After two highly successful nonfiction books, Abraham Verghese has written an enthralling debut novel set largely in Ethiopia, the country where he grew up. Verghese creates a saga grand enough for the movies, yet sensitive in its explorations of character, purpose....

San Francisco Chronicle - February 1, 2009
An epic tale about love, abandonment, betrayal and redemption, Abraham Verghese's first novel, Cutting for Stone, is a masterpiece of traditional storytelling. Not a word is wasted in this larger-than-life tome, a saga that spans three countries and six decades...