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Book SynopsisBorn 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 ReviewThis 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 *
