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Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese
Category: Fiction
A sweeping, emotionally riveting novel with over one million copies sold--an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their ...Show more
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese, M.D.
Category: Fiction
Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother's death and their father's disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Eth ...Show more
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese, M.D.
Category: Fiction
A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel--an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. 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. Orphaned ...Show more
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Category: Fiction
This is a masterly debut novel, visceral in its power, heartbreaking in its tenderness. Transporting the reader from the 1940s to the present, from a convent in India to a cargo ship bound for the Yemen, from a tiny operating theatre in Ethiopia to a hospital in the Bronx, "Cutting for Stone" is a thril ...Show more
Cutting for Stone Large Print by VERGHESE ABRAHAM
Category: Fiction | Series: Thorndike Core
Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles--and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined. Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of secret union between a beautiful Indian nun a ...Show more
My Own Country by Abraham Verghese
Category: Biography Memoir
Nestled in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, the town of Johnson City had always seemed exempt from the anxieties of modern American life. But when the local hospital treated its first AIDS patient, a crisis that had once seemed an "urban problem" had arrived in the town to stay. Working in John ...Show more
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Category: Fiction
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial new epic of love, faith and medicine, set in Kerala, South India. AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB SELECTION 'One of the best books I've read in my entire life. It's epic. It's transportive . . . It was unputdownable!' ...Show more
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Category: Fiction
OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret "One ...Show more
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Category: Fiction
Named a Most Anticipated Book by the Washington Post, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Oprah Daily, Publishers Weekly (Top 10), Literary Hub and BookPage Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water follows a family in southern India that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least ...Show more
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Category: International Fiction
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial new epic of love, faith and medicine, set in Kerala, South India. Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water follows a family in southern India that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every gener ...Show more
The New York Times Book of Medicine: More Than 150 Years of Reporting on the Evolution of Medicine by Gina Kolata; Abraham Verghese (Foreword by)
Category: Science
Today we live longer, healthier lives than ever before in history--a transformation due almost entirely to tremendous advances in medicine. This change is so profound, with many major illnesses nearly wiped out, that it's hard now to imagine what the world was like in 1851, when the New York Times bega ...Show more
The Tennis Partner by Abraham Verghese, M.D.
Category: Biography Memoir
When Abraham Verghese, a physician whose marriage is unraveling, relocates to El Paso, Texas, he hopes to make a fresh start as a staff member at the county hospital. There he meets David Smith, a medical student recovering from drug addition, and the two men begin a tennis ritual that allows them to s ...Show more