Cutting for Stone

Informationen zum Autor Abraham Verghese Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Where silk and steel fail, story must succeed. To begin at the beginning...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Abraham Verghese, Verghese Abraham
• Editore: Vintage UK
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 26.12.2009
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi
• EAN: 9780099443636
• ISBN: 978-0-09-944363-6
• Numero di pagine: 560
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 12.9 x 19.8 x 3.5 cm
• Serie: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Categorie: Historical romance, FICTION / Sagas, Historical fiction, Relationships, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, ABBA, family, Africa, FICTION / Family Life / Siblings, Nonfiction, Family life fiction, oprah, Kate Atkinson, Generational sagas, African History, The Hare With Amber Eyes, Addis Ababa, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Ethiopia, FICTION / Multiple Timelines, FICTION / World Literature / Africa / East Africa, Romantic Fiction, Oprah Winfrey Book Club, book club books, historical fiction books, good books, historical books, top 10 fiction, aga, historical novels, Oprah Book Club, top ten fiction, genealogy fiction, The Covenant of Water, war of the ring, the glass castle, mornings in jenin