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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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