Marion und Shiva werden als siamesische Zwillingssöhne einer geheimen Liaison zwischen einer indischen Nonne und einem britischen Chirurgen am Missing-Krankenhaus in Addis Abeba, Äthiopien, geboren.. Die Mutter stirbt noch bei der Geburt, ihr Vater verlässt sie. Marion und Shiva sind jedoch auf außergewöhnliche Weise miteinander verbunden und teilen die Faszination für die Medizin. Aber als sie sich leidenschaftlich in die gleiche Frau verlieben, reisst es sie auseinander. Marion verlässt sein Heimatland, um in Amerika als Arzt zu arbeiten. Doch dann holt ihn die Vergangenheit ein und er muss sein Leben den zwei Menschen anvertrauen, denen er am meisten misstraut: Seinem Vater, der ihn einst verließ, und seinem Bruder, der ihn betrog. Episch und unvergesslich - das Erstlingswerk von Abraham Verghese.

Informationen zum Autor Abraham Verghese Klappentext Born and brought up of Indian parents in Ethiopia, Abraham Verghese qualified as a doctor in Madras and is currently professor of medicine at Stanford University, California. He is the author of My Own Country, an NBCC finalist made into a film directed by Mira Nair, and The Tennis Partner, a New York Times Notable Book. His essays and stories have appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Esquire, Granta, New York Times Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal . He lives in Palo Alto, California. Zusammenfassung My brother, Shiva, and I came into the world in the late afternoon of the twentieth of September in the year of grace 1954. We took our first breaths in the thick air of Addis Ababa, capital city of Ethiopia. Where silk and steel fail, story must succeed. To begin at the beginning...

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Abraham Verghese

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Born and brought up of Indian parents in Ethiopia, Abraham Verghese qualified as a doctor in Madras and is currently professor of medicine at Stanford University, California. He is the author of My Own Country, an NBCC finalist made into a film directed by Mira Nair, and The Tennis Partner, a New York Times Notable Book. His essays and stories have appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Esquire, Granta, New York Times Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal. He lives in Palo Alto, California.

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My brother, Shiva, and I came into the world in the late afternoon of the twentieth of September in the year of grace 1954. We took our first breaths in the thick air of Addis Ababa, capital city of Ethiopia. Where silk and steel fail, story must succeed. To begin at the beginning...