Book Review of Cutting for Stone by a Verghese

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As a bookseller, I alive for novels similar Cutting for Stone - big, fat, cute novels every bit fallacious and enchanting as babies, as wise and equally generous as old sages. They are the bread-and-butter novels I can't wait to sell, the books people talk about all twelvemonth long, the books they buy for their sisters and fathers, the book they press into the hands of friends with insistent, almost tearing exhortations. Read this. Y'all will dear it. Yous Take to read this volume...connected

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(Reviewed by Lucia Silva).

Media Reviews

The Houston Relate - William Cobb

The novel is a bit of a potboiler, full of minor characters who accept significant roles in plot twists, and that fuels in function its excessive length and numerous digressions.

San Francisco Chronicle - Meghan Ward

An ballsy tale about love, abandonment, expose and redemption, Verghese'south showtime novel is a masterpiece of traditional storytelling. Not a word is wasted in this larger-than-life saga that spans three countries and six decades

The Washington Mail service Book World - W. Ralph Eubanks

Masterful ... Verghese's gripping narrative moves over decades and generations from India to Ethiopia to an inner-city hospital in New York, describing the cultural and spiritual pull of these places. . . . Fifty-fifty with its many stories and layers, Cutting for Stone remains articulate and curtailed.

Kirkus Reviews

The ambition is laudable, but likewise oftentimes accounts of operations—a bowel obstruction here, a vasectomy there—overwhelm the narrative. Characterization suffers.

Library Periodical - Jim Coan

This novel succeeds on many levels and is recommended for all collections.

Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. Lauded for his sensitive memoir My Own Country, Verghese [at present] turns his formidable talents to fiction, mining his own life and experiences in a magnificent, sweeping novel that moves from India to Ethiopia to an inner-city hospital in New York City over decades and generations.... Verghese'due south weaving of the do of medicine into the narrative is fascinating even as the story bobs and weaves with the power of the best 19th-century novels.

Tracy Kidder

Abraham Verghese has always written with grace, precision and feeling [but] he'south topped himself with Cutting for Stone . . . . A vastly entertaining and enlightening book.

Mark Salzman

Absolutely fantastic! Holy cow, this book should be a huge success. It has everything: nuns, conjoined twins, ceremonious state of war, and medicine–I was thinking that if Vikram Seth and Oliver Sacks were to collaborate on a four-60 minutes episode of Grayness's Anatomy set in Africa, they could only hope to come upwardly with something this moving and entertaining ... A marvelous novel!

Pauline W. Chen, author of Final Exam

A marvelous novel. To read the first page of Cutting for Stone is to fall hopelessly under the spell of a masterful storyteller; and to try to close the book thereafter is to tear oneself away from the almost vivid of dreams. Cutting for Stone is a gorgeous epic tale, suffused with unforgettable grace, humanity and compassion. Verghese breathes such life into his characters that at that place is a poignant familiarity to them, one that lingers and haunts long after the dream is over. Verghese has one time again set the bar and re-defined great medical literature–nifty literature catamenia–for the residual of united states of america.

Atul Gawande

Cutting for Stone is a tremendous achievement. The writing is vivid and thrilling, and the story completely absorbing, with its significant Indian nun, demon-ridden British surgeon, Siamese twins orphaned and severed at nativity, and narrative strands stretching across four continents. A tale this wild is perilous, but there is not a false pace anywhere. Accomplished non-fiction writers practice not necessarily make accomplished novelists, but with Cutting for Rock, Abraham Verghese has become both. This is a novel certain to receive a smashing corporeality of critical attention–and attention from readers, too. I feel lucky to have gotten to read it.

Reader Reviews

Andrea

One of my favorite books
This book is fantastic!

Becky H

interesting on many levels
Although long (peradventure a bit too long), this tale of brothers holds your attending. When an Italian nun, woefully unprepared for a mission in Africa, turns upwards at a medical mission in Ethiopia, she is welcomed because of her skill with patients and ...   Read More

Dave

Cutting for Stone
Our all-guys bookclub read this in a joint meeting with our spouse'south all-girls bookclub -- anybody institute this book to be an admittedly fascinating read about an expanse of the world few of us knew much about and a story line, rich characters, and ...   Read More

Sue Zugaj

LISTEN TO THIS BOOK
The sound book is ane of the best I've listened to. Some narrators 'read' to you.....this narrator brings the country and the characters to life - you are entertained and educated and won't exist disappointed.

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