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There are many things to get used to when you return to Ethiopia after time spent at home in London: goats, sheep and donkeys taking right of way on the road, supermarket staff packing your shopping and carrying it out to the car for you, and incredible sunshine every day (pale skins like mine should never leave the house without suncream). There's also the ... Full story

by Louisa Ermelino -- Publishers Weekly, 12/1/2008 After two searing memoirs, Abraham Verghese writes Cutting for Stone (Reviews, Oct. 27), an epic novel following twin brothers born to a South Indian nun in Ethiopia who grow up to become doctors. What made you turn to fiction after such success with memoir? I always wrote fiction; it was my way of taking a moment from my AIDS work. The ... Full story