A masterly debut novel, visceral in its power, heartbreaking in its tenderness. Transporting the reader from the 1940s to the present, from a convent in India to a cargo ship bound for the Yemen, from a tiny operating theatre in Ethiopia to a hospital in the Bronx, Cutting for Stone is a thrilling epic of conjoined twins, doctors & patients, temptation & redemption, home & exile--and a riveting family story, irresistibly charged with strange happenings, humour & pathos, that grabs you from its harrowing opening & never lets go.
Marion & Shiva Stone are twin sons of a secret union between an Indian nun & a British surgeon at