In a tiny Mission hospital in Haile Selassie's Ethiopia, twin boys, orphaned at birth, are raised by two of the hospital's resident doctors. And so unfolds an engrossing story of forbidden love, sibling rivalry and the search for identity against a backdrop of war and revolution, climaxing in a hospital in America's Bronx. Beware, there's a lot of blood and guts, but Verghese, himself a physician and surgeon, is an inspired story teller.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 58 Autumn 2010 ) |
