On top of that, it spent more than two years on the New York Times bestseller list. Verghese knows what he's talking about, too-the guy is a professor at Stanford's med school, and he's written lots of essays, short stories, and a couple of other novels since this one.Ĭutting for Stone was one of Amazon's and Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year in 2009, and it also won the Indies Choice Book Award in 2010. And we're not surprised: with its epic scope, its romantic punch, and it's close attention to detail-especially nitty-gritty medical details-this one is hard to put down. This is Verghese's first novel, but that didn't stop it from becoming a huge bestseller. It deals with issues of race and immigration, tells the modern history of Ethiopia, and also sheds light on medical problems that affect African women in particular, besides being a really good story. Published in 2009, this novel follows a surgeon named Marion from before his birth all the way to his fiftieth year, telling how he and his twin were separated, how they grew up and betrayed each other, and finally how they came back together. His novel Cutting for Stone is a love letter to Ethiopia, to the medical profession, and to brotherly love itself. The title derives from a line in the Hippocratic Oath warning against medical hubris, and the novel’s signature move is to carry questions of ethics, duty, love and faith directly to the drama of the operating table.Bet you never thought descriptions of surgery could be romantic, did you? His breakout was the 2009 novel “Cutting for Stone,” a sprawling family saga whose plot hinges on disease and surgical procedures.
Verghese, who was raised in an Indian family in Ethiopia, practiced medicine in India and the U.S., and his first book, the 1994 memoir “My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story,” elucidated his work with the invisible victims of AIDS/HIV in rural Tennessee in the 1980s. Today the economic realities are such that just about the only professional designation realistically available to writers is writing instructor, which accounts for the hermeticism of so much current literature-its tendency to be mostly about itself-and may explain the popularity of exceptions such as Abraham Verghese, a doctor turned smash bestseller.ĭr. There was a time, back when literature enjoyed a central position in culture, that novels were commonly informed by worldly experience statesmen, civil servants, scientists and other specialists were apt to have a hand in the game. Photo: Frank Bienewald/LightRocket/Getty Imagesįor the fiction writer, expertise has become something of a superpower. A woman offers flowers at the Triveni Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and Saraswati rivers in Uttar Pradesh, India.
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