Description: Marion and Shiva Stone are twins born to an Indian nun and a British surgeon in 1954. After the boys’ mother dies in childbirth and their father disappears, the boys fend for themselves in an Addis Ababa hospital compound. When love for the same woman drives a wedge between the brothers, Marion, now a doctor, emigrates to America, where he practices at a New York City hospital. Then an event from Marion’s past returns to haunt him, and he must rely on his father and his brother, the two people he has come to resent. “Cutting for Stone” — the title is taken from the Hippocratic oath — is not only about the wounds that tear families apart but also about suffering and healing, love and hatred, and life and death.

Shop online for “Cutting for Stone” by Abraham Verghese: