![]() Both brothers, predictably, go into medicine. Though both boys are handsome and intelligent, Shiva is an oddity one is tempted to describe him as a high-functioning autistic savant. ![]() Marion, the narrator, shares a nearly mystical connection with his twin: in fact, they were born joined at the head. Rosina is the boys’ nanny and her daughter Genet is their playmate and “sister,” while Matron is the stern but loving head of both the family and the “Missing” (the Ethiopian mispronunciation of Mission) hospital where the family lives and ministers to the needs of the poor. ![]() As a result, the twins are cared for by Hema, an irascible but hugely loving Indian born-doctor, and the saintly Ghosh, another Indian-born physician who spends years pining for Hema even as they raise the twins together. His mother, a nun, died giving birth to Marion and his twin Shiva, and their Anglo-Indian father fled the country after the catastrophe. ![]() ![]() Set mostly in and around Addis Ababa and New York, the story follows the life of Marion Praise Stone. Abraham Verghese’s first novel, Cutting for Stone, with its huge cast of characters and exotic locales-including the Bronx-has a richness that recalls Conrad or Forster. ![]()
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