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"Cutting Stone" is a lifelong love story, betrayal and redemption, human weakness and fortitude, exile and a long return to roots. In a missionary hospital in Addis Ababa, under tragic, truly Shakespearean circumstances, two boys are born, twins joined at the back of the head, Marion and Shiva. Born to a beautiful Indian nun by an English surgeon, the boys were orphaned in the first hours of life. The skill and courage of the doctors who separated them immediately after birth determined their lives and fates. Marion and Shiva will connect their lives with medicine, but each will go their own way. An amazing, tragic and full of incredible events fate awaits them. An absolutely happy childhood and a dramatic youth, a search for oneself and one's roots, betrayal and a passionate desire to atone for guilt, a love similar to an obsession, and jealousy that corrodes the soul. And all this under the shadow of medicine. Whatever happens in the lives of the heroes of this truly great novel, no matter how fate torments them, the main thing for them always remained surgery - the business for which they came into this world.
Abraham Verghese is a doctor, a luminary in the field of physical therapy, one of the most authoritative doctors in America. His first novel was a great event, amazing insight and authenticity, deep knowledge of the profession and magnificent literary style allow us to call Verghese's book one of the most significant medical novels of the last century.

Author: Abraham Verghese
Translation: Sokolov Sergey
Editor: Alyukov Igor
Artist: Andrey Bondarenko
Year of issue: 2024
Publisher: Phantom Press
Pages: 608
Cover type: Hardcover
Dimensions: 216x150x43 mm
ISBN: 978-5-86471-960-2