Cutting for Stone heralds the arrival of an

heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in contemporary fiction

Told in interweaving timelines organized around the four code names Nancy used during the war

with Ernest Rutherford

Pulitzer Prize finalist

After her life was turned upside down by solving the murder of her best friend

Cutting for Stone heralds the arrival of anNATIONAL BESTSELLER From the author of The Covenant of Water A beautifully written, page turning family saga of Ethiopia and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. "Filled with mystical scenes and deeply felt characters. Verghese is something of a magician as a novelist." USA Today 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