Tina Brown speaks to physician Abraham Verghese on his new novel Cutting for Stone [in The Daily Beast]
Abraham Verghese’s new novel Cutting for Stone (Knopf) kept me absorbed and enthralled all the way to India two weeks ago.
It’s a big, sweeping family saga about twin brothers born of the secret union between a formidable, aloof surgeon and a nun at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa during the reign of Emperor Haile Selassie. The father, Dr. Stone, disappears immediately after their birth. The story weaves the lives of the characters at the mission with the personal journey of the narrator—one of the boys, Marion—who flees, after a feud with his brother over love, from the political turmoil of Ethiopia via Nariobi to an overcrowded hospital in New York and eventually to a fraught reunion in highly dramatic circumstances with his father and his twin.
Read an excerpt from Cutting for Stone here.
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