Abraham Verghese · 2009 · exile

Abraham Verghese's 2009 saga. Born of an Indian nun and a British surgeon at Missing Hospital in Addis Ababa, twin brothers Marion and Shiva grow up healers as Ethiopia slides toward revolution. Betrayal and love force Marion to flee his homeland for a hard-pressed New York hospital, a surgeon in exile - until the pull of family and the father who vanished draws him home to Ethiopia at last.

1. 1
   Madras

   From a Carmelite convent in Madras, the young Indian nun Sister Mary Joseph Praise takes ship for Africa, and a fateful bond with the British surgeon Thomas Stone that will make her, unknowably, the mother of twins.

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   Addis Ababa

   At Missing Hospital in the thin mountain air of Addis Ababa the twins Marion and Shiva are born and orphaned, raised among surgeons and drawn to medicine, coming of age as Ethiopia turns toward revolution.

3. 3
   New York

   Betrayal and a shared love drive Marion to flee Ethiopia; he makes his way to America and an overwhelmed inner-city hospital in New York, a gifted young surgeon learning his craft far from home.

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   Addis Ababa (return)

   Illness, and the long-buried truth of the father who vanished at his birth, at last draw Marion back across the world to Ethiopia and Missing Hospital, and the family and homeland he never stopped carrying with him.