The journey the two of them embark on together must begin with love, Rune thinks.

This is, after all, his own nightmare, though in his dream the culprit is always leprosy. Cutting for Stone is a gorgeous epic tale, suffused with unforgettable grace, humanity and compassion. Of Digby’s hands Verghese writes: “The spectacle of these ruined tools of a surgeon’s livelihood fills Rune with sorrow. To read the first page of Cutting for Stone is to fall hopelessly under the spell of a masterful storyteller and to try to close the book thereafter is to tear oneself away from the most vivid of dreams.

These passages provide some of the book’s most moving and revelatory moments. When Digby, badly burned in an accidental fire, flees to a remote leprosy sanctuary to recover, he is slowly repaired there by the (marvelously drawn) Swedish village doctor Rune Orqvist. When the past catches up to himnearly destroying himMarion must entrust his life to the two men he thought he trusted least in the world: the surgeon father who abandoned him and the brother who betrayed him.Īn unforgettable journey into one mans remarkable life, and an epic story about the power, intimacy, and curious beauty of the work of healing others.Verghese folds in major players, guiding them toward each other: the irresistible Digby Kilgour, a young medical graduate, migrates in 1933 from a nightmare childhood in Glasgow to Madras, India, to gain surgical experience: “The sight of suffering is familiar its language transcends all borders.” Medical crises incite action throughout the novel, allowing Verghese to tap into his deep experience and endearingly humane philosophy. In the spirit of his breakout novel, ‘Cutting for Stone,’ Abraham Verghese offers an epic melodrama of medicine. Abraham Verghese Cutting for Stone Kindle Edition by Abraham Verghese (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 6,873 ratings Goodreads Choice Award nominee See all formats and editions Kindle 13.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. He makes his way to America, finding refuge in his work as an intern at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital.

Yet it will be love, not politicstheir passion for the same womanthat will tear them apart and force Marion, fresh out of medical school, to flee his homeland. Orphaned by their mothers death in childbirth and their fathers 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. Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. 1 day ago &0183 &32 The Covenant of Water,' published Tuesday, is Vergheses first work of fiction since his million-selling Cutting for Stone came out in 2009.

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