Hijos del Ancho Mundo / Cutting for Stone (Paperback)

from brenzi

"After eight months spent in the obscurity of our mother's womb, my brother, Shiva, and I came into the world in the late afternoon of the twentieth century of September in the year of our grace 1954." So begins Abraham Verghese's wonderful sweeping novel that takes us from India to Ethiopa to Ne...

from BeachWriter

There are two tests of a great book: First, you can't wait to finish it, and second, you miss it when it is over. Abraham Verghese has written such a book. I found myself reading it in 100-page chunks at a time. Now, I wish there had been another hundred pages or so. The central characters of the...

from Donna828

This is one of those larger-than-life books that interrupts daily living and transports the reader to the author's world. Verghese lovingly writes of his native Ethiopia and tells some of its recent history through the eyes of narrator Marion Stone. The story begins in raw anguish as Marion and h...

from scarpettajunkie

Cutting For Stone is a sweeping, outstanding epic. It is without question a book to be read, discussed and remembered. It is a work of fiction that blurs the fine line between imagination and reality. The author gives voice to the lead character, Marion Stone, who narrates this story, which seems...

from Cariola

What a wonderful novel, and what fine writing. (NO SPOILERS--all of what follows is on the book jacket). It's narrated by Marion, one of a set of conjoined twins born to a nun (who goes into labor without anyone knowing it) in an Ethiopian mission hospital in the 1960s; their father, everyone sus...