Cutting for Stone

Marion and Shiva, born in Ethiopia in the 1950s, are the illicit twins of an Indian nun and British doctor. With wildly different temperaments, they grow up in a country on the brink of revolution, until a betrayal splits them apart. But fate will bring them together again. Spans the 1940s to the present day, from a convent in India to a cargo ship, an operating theatre in Ethiopia to a hospital in the Bronx. An exotic saga full of forbidden love and desire, betrayal, murder, medicine and family secrets.