Cutting for Stone

Cutting for Stone

Author: Abraham Verghese

Publisher: Random House India

Published: 2012-05-17

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 8184001754

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Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death 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. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles—and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.


The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

Author: Dinaw Mengestu

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2007-03-01

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1101217561

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Seventeen years ago, Sepha Stephanos fled the Ethiopian Revolution for a new start in the United States. Now he finds himself running a failing grocery store in a poor African-American section of Washington, D.C., his only companions two fellow African immigrants who share his bitter nostalgia and longing for his home continent. Years ago and worlds away Sepha could never have imagined a life of such isolation. As his environment begins to change, hope comes in the form of a friendship with new neighbors Judith and Naomi, a white woman and her biracial daughter. But when a series of racial incidents disturbs the community, Sepha may lose everything all over again. Watch a QuickTime interview with Dinaw Mengestu about this book.


Poetry and Bondage

Poetry and Bondage

Author: Andrea Brady

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-10-21

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 110884572X

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Offering a new theory of poetic constraint, this book analyses contributions of bound people to the history of the lyric.


The Wife’s Tale: A Personal History

The Wife’s Tale: A Personal History

Author: Aida Edemariam

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2018-02-22

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 0007459610

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WINNER OF THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2019 AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR A CBC BOOK OF THE YEAR The extraordinary story of an indomitable 95-year-old woman – and of the most extraordinary century in Ethiopia’s history. A new Wild Swans