1
Writing a Book Review Cutting for Stone
Name
Institution
Date
, 2
Writing a Book Review Cutting Stone
Introduction
Cutting for Stone, a 2009 novel by Ethiopian doctor Abraham Varghese, recounts the
account of twin siblings Marion and Shiva Stone, who were conceived together however isolated
by their birth to the world. Their mother dies during labor, and their father forsakes them, leaving
the young men to live as orphans. Marion goes about as a storyteller for the book. Distinctive
and realistic clinical subtleties add to the general tone of the story. The novel starts with the birth
of Marion and Shiva in 1954 at the Mission Hospital in Addis Ababa, the biggest city in
Ethiopia. "Mission" is articulated as "missing" contingent upon the way to pronounce the region.
Their mother, Sister Mary Joseph, a Carmelite nun adherent from India, stayed quiet about her
pregnancy; their father, Thomas Stone, was a British specialist at Missing. Following the passing
of their mother and the vanishing of their father, the young men are dealing with a missing
individual at the home of two specialists in Madras. Marion should give up her life to two
individuals whom he believes are the most trusted on the earth, the specialist's father who
deserted him and the sibling who double-crossed him.
The motivation behind the book
This book resolves significant issues about life in Ethiopia, as well as ethnic and
migration issues, and discusses how the United States can be kept alive as worldwide doctors are
offered a residency program in the United States and afterward live relentless after their home,
without returning to their country. This book reveals more insight into the clinical issues
influencing the mainland of Africa and particularly women.
Writing a Book Review Cutting for Stone
Name
Institution
Date
, 2
Writing a Book Review Cutting Stone
Introduction
Cutting for Stone, a 2009 novel by Ethiopian doctor Abraham Varghese, recounts the
account of twin siblings Marion and Shiva Stone, who were conceived together however isolated
by their birth to the world. Their mother dies during labor, and their father forsakes them, leaving
the young men to live as orphans. Marion goes about as a storyteller for the book. Distinctive
and realistic clinical subtleties add to the general tone of the story. The novel starts with the birth
of Marion and Shiva in 1954 at the Mission Hospital in Addis Ababa, the biggest city in
Ethiopia. "Mission" is articulated as "missing" contingent upon the way to pronounce the region.
Their mother, Sister Mary Joseph, a Carmelite nun adherent from India, stayed quiet about her
pregnancy; their father, Thomas Stone, was a British specialist at Missing. Following the passing
of their mother and the vanishing of their father, the young men are dealing with a missing
individual at the home of two specialists in Madras. Marion should give up her life to two
individuals whom he believes are the most trusted on the earth, the specialist's father who
deserted him and the sibling who double-crossed him.
The motivation behind the book
This book resolves significant issues about life in Ethiopia, as well as ethnic and
migration issues, and discusses how the United States can be kept alive as worldwide doctors are
offered a residency program in the United States and afterward live relentless after their home,
without returning to their country. This book reveals more insight into the clinical issues
influencing the mainland of Africa and particularly women.
