Just finished Abraham Verghese's first novel, "Cutting for Stone." It's a sweeping novel that takes us from the India and Ethiopia of the 1940's to an inner city hospital in NYC in the 1980's and back again to a missionary hospital in Addis Ababa. The course of the lives we're given cross history and localities few Americans have knowledge of while discovering the pain of betrayal and the power of redemption. And like all great morality plays, there are sacrifices for the propitiation of the sins committed.
The book is dynamic, extravagant, enthralling and composed with tremendous attention to detail and the emotional universe. You will love these characters. They will bring you to tears, cause you shout at them and at times curse the world in which they struggle for meaning.
Amazed and transformed by this one.
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