Cutting for Stone

Title Cutting for Stone
Names Verghese, A.
Book Number DB070131
Annotation Ethiopia, 1954. Twin brothers Shiva and Marion Stone's Indian-nun mother dies during their birth and their British father abandons them. As revolution brews decades later, Marion, a surgeon, flees to America, where he eventually confronts his past. Some violence, some strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2009.
Narrator Ashby, Mark.
Title Status Active
Local Subject Family Chronicles Fiction - FAM
Medical Stories, Fiction - MEDF
Adult Book - AD
Adult Fiction - AF
Long Book - LO
Physics - PHYS
Male narrator - MN
Contains some explicit descriptions of sex - SE-X
Contains some strong language - ST-S
Contains some violence - VI-S
LC Subject Brothers - Fiction
Fathers and sons - Fiction
Physicians - Fiction
Bronx (New York, N.Y.) - Fiction
Ethiopia - Fiction
Medium Digital Books
Language English
Length 21 hours, 24 minutes
Publication Info (Potomac Talking Book Services, recording studio). 2010 (Potomac Talking Book Services, recording studio).
Original Publication Recorded from: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. 9780375414497
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