Summary
Ethiopian Abraham Verghese's debut novel transports 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.
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Cutting for Stone (Fiction, Random House, Pounds 17.99)
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