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Verghese at Asia Soc

(Asiasociety Videol) Mira Nair, Aseem Chhabra interview Abraham Verghese, and he reads from ‘Cutting for Stone.’

Reggae Mallus

(Dailybeast) Tina Brown i/vs Abraham Verghese on his novel: Ethiopian ruler Haile Selassie emperor came to Kerala, was taken by the schoolchildren and hired all his teachers from Kerala. That’s how Verghese’s parents ended up there.

‘Cutting for Stone’ review

(New Yorker) Verghese bends coincidence — characters cross paths when they should — creating a story much like the human bodies Marion painstakingly describes: beautiful, amazing, and a bit of a mess.