The multi-million copy bestseller from the author of Oprah’s Book Club pick The Covenant of Water

Cutting For Stone

An enthralling, exotic saga spanning five decades and three continents, rife with forbidden love and desire; betrayals, murder, medicine and family secrets.

This huge, rich, ambitious tapestry of a novel makes insomnia a pleasure...tremendous

There is a gravity and beauty in his writing that sets it apart from much contemporary fiction

The reader feels there really is something at stake - birth, love, death, war, loyalty

Born 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.

Two surgeon brothers begin life in Ethiopia and face forbidden love, betrayal and murder in this enthralling saga that spans five decades and three continents. 
 
'A huge, rich, ambitious tapestry of a novel...tremendous' The Times 
 
'My brother, Shiva, and I came into the world in the late afternoon of the twentieth of September in the year of grace 1954. We took our first breaths in the thick air of Addis Ababa, capital city of Ethiopia. 
 
Bound by birth, we were driven apart by bitter betrayal. No surgeon can heal the wound that would that divides two brothers. Where silk and steel fail, story must succeed' 
 
'There is a gravity and beauty in his writing that sets it apart from much contemporary fiction' Daily Telegraph 
 
**OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLD-WIDE** 
 
Read this beloved modern classic from the author of Oprah Winfrey's Book Club pick The Covenant of Water.

Abraham Verghese

Verghese is a fine writer, lyrical and controlled, and he captures the attachment between two men - its motives, its allure - with both precision and charm... Wise and compassionate

Heartbreaking... Indelible and haunting... An elegy to friendship found and an ode to a good friend lost

When Abraham Verghese, a physician whose marriage is unravelling, relocates to Texas, he hopes to make a fresh start as a staff member at a county hospital. 
 
There he meets David Smith, a medical student recovering from a drug addiction, and the two men begin a tennis ritual that allows them to shed their inhibitions and find security, in the sport they love and in each other. But when the dark beast that is David's addiction emerges once again, almost everything Verghese has come to trust and believe in is threatened. 
 
Compassionate and moving, The Tennis Player is an unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive.

Abraham Verghese

Praise for The Tennis Partner

Verghese is a fine writer, lyrical and controlled, and he captures the attachment between two men - its motives, its allure - with both precision and charm... Wise and compassionate

A brave and heart-baring story

Heartbreaking... Indelible and haunting... An elegy to friendship found and an ode to a good friend lost

Verghese is a fine writer, lyrical and controlled, and he captures the attachment between two men - its motives, its allure - with both precision and charm... Wise and compassionate

A brave and heart-baring story

Heartbreaking... Indelible and haunting... An elegy to friendship found and an ode to a good friend lost

Verghese is a fine writer, lyrical and controlled, and he captures the attachment between two men - its motives, its allure - with both precision and charm... Wise and compassionate

A brave and heart-baring story

Heartbreaking... Indelible and haunting... An elegy to friendship found and an ode to a good friend lost

Books by Abraham Verghese

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