Cutting for Stone

Author(s): Abraham Verghese

Location(s): Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, United States (USA)

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century

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My brother, Shiva, and I came into the world in the late afternoon of the twentieth of September in the year of grace 1954. We took our first breaths in the thick air of Addis Ababa, capital city of Ethiopia.

Bound by birth, we were driven apart by bitter betrayal. No surgeon can heal the would that divides two brothers. Where silk and steel fail, story must succeed.

To begin at the beginning…

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The author brilliantly evokes life in Addis Ababa of the 1960s,’70s and ’80s, at a time when there was huge and horrific political unrest, that transformed the ancient Christian African empire ruled by Haile...

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Captivating

Author: Bev Bookless

I was captured from the very beginning. This book set in Ethiopia and then the USA has everything that you could possibly want. Complex relationships, family heartache and joy. I learned a lot about the history of Ethiopia, the...

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Glorious!

This was recommended by a friend and I loved it so much that I have bought it in hardback to join my ‘best ever’ reads! The story is captivating and inhabited by wonderful engaging characters – there is no...

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