Cutting for Stone 

Abraham Verghese's first novel has gained considerable momentum in the year since its publication and is now on several prestigious "Best of 2009" lists.

In April, the American Booksellers Association announced the winners of the 2010 Indies Choice Book Awards, reflecting the spirit of independent bookstores nationwide. Cutting for Stone won the award for Adult Fiction.The award will be presented at BookExpo America 2010 in New York later this month. Cutting for Stone also won the award for Fiction for books published in 2009 from the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association.

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.

--Read the first chapter of Cutting for Stone
--Check out the Reading Guide
--NPR's Book Tour with Lynn Neary
--Listen to Abraham Verghese on The Diane Rehm Show
--See Movie Director Mira Nair's in-depth interview

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