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Sto caricando le informazioni... Cutting for Stone: A novel (originale 2009; edizione 2009)di Abraham Verghese (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Beautifully written story of twin Indian boys born in Ethiopia to a nun and a surgeon who work at a small hospital. The boys’ birth leads to the mother’s death and the father’s abandonment. The boys, Marion and Shiva, are taken and raised by Hema and Ghosh, who also work at the hospital. We follow their youth in war-torn Ethiopia and eventual pursuit of medicine, each in his own way. ( ) Spoilers, a book that was wonderfully plotted and well written, ruined for me, by it's treatment of women. Sr. Mary Praise, raped, Genet, used and mutilated and then used again while desperately ill by the main character. All the unknown girls with fistula .The woman tricked into sleeping with the wrong twin. Rosina, the mistress, beaten and driven to suicide. Only the somewhat hazy mother superior and Hema have any strength and it is lost amid all the brutality. Maybe I'm missing it and the author was making a commentary on the treatment of women. I am not a huge feminist, I love dickens depite his mostly wispy washy women, but I found this hard to take This lengthy and over-written book contains the potential to be an interesting story. Twins separated from their parents early in life, life for Indian immigrants in Ethiopia, star-crossed lovers, loss and betrayal in families, delicate operations with life or death consequences: these all seem like the seeds of an interesting drama. In the end though, this is really only a kind of hero-story (or stories) suitable for surgeons. The author’s medical background pushes aside his evident writing skills in long passages of surgical jargon that read as if they are intended to impress his colleagues rather than provide context. Some of his main characters are a little one-dimensional and deserved more out of 600 pages. And he has been let down by editors who failed to resect the necrotic parts the text. It’s not a terrible book, but it could have been so much more.
Cutting for Stone - the phrase is from the Hippocratic oath - is about twins born joined at the head, in a mission hospital in Addis Ababa half a century ago. Their mother, a nun from Madras, does not survive the birth. Their father, a British surgeon called Thomas Stone, cannot bear the loss and flees, so Marion and Shiva are raised by two Indian doctors in the hospital where their parents worked; both become surgeons. Appartiene alle Collane EditorialiPremi e riconoscimentiMenzioniElenchi di rilievo
Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret 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, 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. Yet it will be love, not politics -- their passion for the same woman -- that will tear them apart and force Marion, fresh out of medical school, to flee his homeland. He makes his way to America, finding refuge in his work as an intern at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. When the past catches up to him -- nearly destroying him -- Marion must entrust his life to the two men he thought he trusted least in the world: the surgeon father who abandoned him and the brother who betrayed him. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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