Lead Review

  • Book: Cutting for Stone
  • Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, United States (USA)
  • Author: Abraham Verghese

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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 Selassie into a Stalinist revolutionary hell under Mengistu – Tyler Med –

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