His experience as a physician in the rural south, caring for terminally ill AIDS patients has been heartrendingly documented in his memoir My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story. Verghese has dipped heavily into his own life for furnishing the material for his writing. There can be no doubt that this novel is the work of a seasoned writer who has led many lives in many places. Ethiopian Treasures explores the many varied aspects of Ethiopia including its history, culture, tradition, religion, language, calendar, geography and climate.įrom fascinating social and political portraits of Ethiopia in upheaval, Cutting for Stone zooms into a territory where few have gone before: the drama of the operating theater and the mysteries inside the human body.
New York (TADIAS) – Earlier this year, Tadias reviewed Abraham Verghese’s Cutting for Stone, an epic novel about a young man’s coming of age in Ethiopia and America.
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Interviews archive at Tadias Magazine Physician and author Abraham Verghese. Blatta MARSIE HAZEN from the English/Arabic translation. 1 THE LITURGY OF THE ETHIOPIAN CHURCH Translated by the Rev.
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