Their mother, a nun from Madras, does not survive the birth. Some of the best passages in all three books are those in which he reads the language of the body - its colours and betraying odours, its telltale pulses - and the emotions that obscure and interrupt that language.Ĭutting for Stone - the phrase is from the Hippocratic oath - is about twins born joined at the head, in a mission hospital in Addis Ababa half a century ago. This first novel was preceded by two non-fiction books: The Tennis Partner, about his distressing friendship with a drug addict and fellow doctor, and My Own Country, a memoir of working with Aids patients in a conservative southern US town. A braham Verghese, an Indian, grew up in Addis Ababa, has lived in Madras and various cities in America, and thus, regardless of temperament, would always have felt something of a watchful outsider.
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