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Born and brought up of Indian parents in Ethiopia, Abraham Verghese qualified as a doctor in Madras and is currently professor of medicine at Stanford University, California. He is the author of My Own Country, an NBCC finalist made into a film directed by Mira Nair, and The Tennis Partner, a New York Times Notable Book. His essays and stories have appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Esquire, Granta, New York Times Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal. He lives in Palo Alto, California.

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Cutting For Stone

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage
      Published 26 December 2009
      ISBN-13 9780099443636
      978-0099443636
      ISBN-10 0099443635
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      Fiction Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Born and brought up of Indian parents in Ethiopia, Abraham Verghese qualified as a doctor in Madras and is currently professor of medicine at Stanford University, California. He is the author of My Own Country, an NBCC finalist made into a film directed by Mira Nair, and The Tennis Partner, a New York Times Notable Book. His essays and stories have appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Esquire, Granta, New York Times Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal. He lives in Palo Alto, California.

      Trade Review
      This huge, rich, ambitious tapestry of a novel makes insomnia a pleasure...tremendous * The Times *
      There is a gravity and beauty in his writing that sets it apart from much contemporary fiction * Daily Telegraph *
      Tremendous, compassionate, exuberant * Independent *
      The reader feels there really is something at stake - birth, love, death, war, loyalty * Guardian *
      Tremendousm compassionate, exuberant -- Michael Bywater * Independent *

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