Author:
Abraham Verghese
Stars:
5
Review by: ddlesmom
The story is a riveting saga of twin brothers, Marion and Shiva Stone,
born of a tragic union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash
British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their
mother's death in childbirth and their father's disappearance, and
bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination
with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of
revolution.But it's love, not politics -- their passion for the same
woman -- that will tear them apart and force Marion to flee his
homeland and make his way to America, finding refuge in his work at an
underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. When the past catches
up to him, wreaking havoc and destruction, Marion has to entrust his
life to the two men he has trusted least in the world: the surgeon
father who abandoned him and the brother who betrayed him.
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