Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese [285]
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eISBN: 978-0-307-27134-1
1. Physicians—Fiction. 2. Brothers—Fiction. 3. Fathers and sons—Fiction.
4. Ethiopia—Fiction. 5. Bronx (New York, NY.)—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3622.E744C87 2009
813‘.6—dc22 2008028252
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Table of Contents
Cover
Other Books By This Author
Title Page
Dedication
PROLOGUE: The Coming
PART ONE
CHAPTER 1: The Typhoid State Revisited
CHAPTER 2: The Missing Finger
CHAPTER 3: The Gate of Tears
CHAPTER 4: The Five-F Rule
CHAPTER 5: Last Moments
CHAPTER 6: My Abyssinia
CHAPTER 7: Fetor Terribilis
CHAPTER 8: Missing People
CHAPTER 9: Where Duty Lies
CHAPTER 10: Dance of Shiva
PART TWO
CHAPTER 11: Bedside Language and Bedroom Language
CHAPTER 12: Land's End
CHAPTER 13: Praise in the Arms of Jesus
CHAPTER 14: Knowledge of the Redeemer
CHAPTER 15: Crookedness of: the Serpent
CHAPTER 16: Bride for a Year
PART THREE
CHAPTER 17: “Tizita”
CHAPTER 18: Sins of the Father
CHAPTER 19: Giving Dogs Their Due
CHAPTER 20: Blind Man's Buff
CHAPTER 21: Knowing What You Will Hear
CHAPTER 22: The School of Suffering
CHAPTER 23: The Afterbird and Other Animals
CHAPTER 24: Loving the Dying
CHAPTER 25: Anger as a: Form of Love
CHAPTER 26: The Face of Suffering
CHAPTER 27: Answering Medicine
CHAPTER 28: The Good Doctor
CHAPTER 29: Abu Kassem's Slippers
CHAPTER 30: Word for Words
CHAPTER 31: The Dominion of the Flesh
CHAPTER 32: A Time to Sow
CHAPTER 33: A Form of Madness
CHAPTER 34: A Time to Reap
CHAPTER 35: One Fever from Another
CHAPTER 36: Prognostic Signs
CHAPTER 37: Exodus
PART FOUR
CHAPTER 38: Welcome Wagon
CHAPTER 39: The Cure for What Ails Thee
CHAPTER 40: Salt and Pepper
CHAPTER 41: One Knot at a Time
CHAPTER 42: Bloodlines
CHAPTER 43: Grand Rounds
CHAPTER 44: Begin at the: Beginning
CHAPTER 45: A Matter of Time
CHAPTER 46: Room with a View
CHAPTER 47: Missing Letters
CHAPTER 48: Five Fingers
CHAPTER 49: Queen's Move
CHAPTER 50: Slit the Thew
CHAPTER 51: The Devil's Choice
CHAPTER 52: A Pair of Unpaired Organs
CHAPTER 53: She Is Coming
CHAPTER 54: Homefires
CHAPTER 55: The Afterbird
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Copyright