Nestled in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, the town of Johnson City saw its first AIDS patient in August 1985. Working in Johnson City was Abraham Verghese, a young Indian doctor specializing in infectious diseases who became, by necessity, the local AIDS expert. Out of his experience come[...]
Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their motherâs death and their fatherâs disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come[...]
An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for StoneWhen Abraham Verghese, a physician whose marriage is unraveling, relocates to El Paso, Texas, he hopes to make a fresh start as a staff member at the co[...]
A story about male friendship and drug addiction, told by a doctor who watched his young friend and student, a brilliant tennis player, destroy his life with cocaine.[...]
Abraham Verghese is a doctor, an accomplished memoirist and, as he proves in Cutting for Stone, something of a magician as a novelist. This sprawling, 50-year epic begins with a touch of alchemy: the birth of conjoined twins to an Indian nun in an Ethiopian hospital in 1954. The likely father, a Bri[...]
Marion and Shiva Stone are twin sons of a secret union between an Indian nun and a British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother's death in childbirth and their father's disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the brothers come of age as Ethiop[...]
Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles--and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.
Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of secret union between a beautiful India[...]
»Efter otte måneder i dunkelheden i vores mors skød kom min bror Shiva og jeg til verden sent på eftermiddagen den tyvende september i det herrens år 1954. Vi drog vores første åndedrag i knap to en halv kilometers højde i den tynde luft i Addis Abeba, Etiopiens hovedstad.�[...]
This is a fascinating collection of 150 articles from the New York Times archive. It charts the developing scientific insights, breakthroughs and struggles into diagnosing and treating a myriad of medical conditions. It also reveals medical mistakes, lapses in ethics, and wrong paths taken in hopes [...]
En stor, episk roman om tvillingbrødrene Marion og Shiva Stone, som vokser opp blant legene på et misjonssykehus i Etiopia.Alene sammen er den medrivende historien om tvillingbrødrene Marion og Shiva Stone, som på dramatisk vis blir født på et misjonssykehus i Etiopia. Moren - en ung nonne - d[...]
Oförglömligt om kärlek, familjehemligheter och politiska intriger
Tvillingpojkarna Marion och Shiva Stone är resultatet av en dramatisk och förbjuden kärlekshistoria mellan Mary Joseph Praise, en vacker indisk nunna och sjuksköterska, och Thomas Stone, en självsäker brittisk kirurg.[...]