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"Heartbreaking. . . . Indelible and haunting, The Tennis Partner] is an elegy to friendship found, and an ode to a good friend lost." -- The Boston GlobeAn unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for Stone.When Abraham Verghese, a physician whose marriage is unraveling, relocates to El Paso, Texas, he hopes to make a fresh start as a staff member at the county hospital. There he meets David Smith, a medical student recovering from drug addiction, and the two men begin a tennis ritual that allows them to shed their inhibitions and find security in the sport they love and with each other. This friendship between doctor and intern grows increasingly rich and complex, more intimate than two men usually allow. Just when it seems nothing can go wrong, the dark beast from David's past emerges once again--and almost everything Verghese has come to trust and believe in is threatened as David spirals out of control.

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...

When Abraham Verghese, a physician whose marriage is unravelling, relocates to Texas, he hopes to make a fresh start as a staff member at a county hospital.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the author of The Covenant of Water A beautifully written, page-turning family saga of Ethiopia and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. - "Filled with mystical scenes and deeply felt characters.... Verghese is something of a magician as a novelist." --USA Today Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother's death and their father's disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles--and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined. This sweeping, emotionally riveting novel that "shows how history and landscape and accidents of birth conspire to create the story of a single life" (Los Angeles Times).

From the author of The Covenant of Water and New York Times bestseller Cutting for Stone: a story of medicine in the American heartland, and confronting one's deepest prejudices and fears. "Remarkable.... An account of the AIDS] plague years in America. Beautifully written...by a doctor who was changed and shaped by his patients." --The New York Times Book Review Nestled in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, the town of Johnson City had always seemed exempt from the anxieties of modern American life. But when the local hospital treated its first AIDS patient, a crisis that had once seemed an "urban problem" had arrived in the town to stay. Working in Johnson City was Abraham Verghese, a young Indian doctor specializing in infectious diseases. Dr. Verghese became by necessity the local AIDS expert, soon besieged by a shocking number of male and female patients whose stories came to occupy his mind, and even take over his life. Verghese brought a singular perspective to Johnson City: as a doctor unique in his abilities; as an outsider who could talk to people suspicious of local practitioners; above all, as a writer of grace and compassion who saw that what was happening in this conservative community was both a medical and a spiritual emergency.

OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - SUBJECT OF A SIX-PART SUPER SOUL PODCAST SERIES HOSTED BY OPRAH WINFREYFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret"One of the best books I've read in my entire life. It's epic. It's transportive . . . It was unputdownable "--Oprah Winfrey, OprahDaily.comThe Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major word-of-mouth bestseller Cutting for Stone, which has sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States alone and remained on the New York Times bestseller list for over two years.Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India's Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning--and in Kerala, water is everywhere. At the turn of the century, a twelve-year-old girl from Kerala's long-existing Christian community, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her wedding, where she will meet her forty-year-old husband for the first time. From this unforgettable new beginning, the young girl--and future matriarch, known as Big Ammachi--will witness unthinkable changes over the span of her extraordinary life, full of joy and triumph as well as hardship and loss, her faith and love the only constants.A shimmering evocation of a bygone India and of the passage of time itself, The Covenant of Water is a hymn to progress in medicine and to human understanding, and a humbling testament to the difficulties undergone by past generations for the sake of those alive today. It is one of the most masterful literary novels published in recent years.

OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - SUBJECT OF A SIX-PART SUPER SOUL PODCAST SERIES HOSTED BY OPRAH WINFREYFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret"One of the best books I've read in my entire life. It's epic. It's transportive . . . It was unputdownable "--Oprah Winfrey, OprahDaily.comAn instant New York Times and indie bestseller and an Oprah Book Club Pick, The Covenant of Water has sold more than 1.5 million copies worldwide and was widely named as a best book of the year. Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, Abraham Verghese's long-awaited, masterful novel follows three generations of a Christian family in Kerala, South India, that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning. At the turn of the century, a twelve-year-old girl is sent by boat to her wedding, where she will meet her forty-year-old husband for the first time. From this unforgettable beginning, the young girl--and future matriarch, known as Big Ammachi--will witness unthinkable changes over the span of her extraordinary life, full of joy and triumph as well as hardship and loss. An exquisite modern classic finally available in paperback, The Covenant of Water is an unforgettable and stunning epic of love, faith, and medicine.

Drawn from the popular "Narrative Matters" column in the journal Health Affairs, these essays embody a vision for a health care system that centers the humanity of patients and doctors alike.Health care decision making affects patients and families first and foremost, yet their perspectives are not always factored into health policy deliberations and discussions. In this anthology, Jessica Bylander brings together the personal stories of the patients, physicians, caregivers, policy makers, and others whose writings add much-needed human context to health care decision making.Drawn from the popular "Narrative Matters" column in the leading health policy journal Health Affairs, this collection features essays by some of the leading minds in health care today, including Pulitzer Prize–winner Siddhartha Mukherjee, MacArthur fellow Diane Meier, former Planned Parenthood president Leana S. Wen, and former secretary of health and human services Louis W. Sullivan. The collection also presents important stories from lesser-known voices, including a transgender doctor in Oklahoma who calls for better treatment of trans patients and a palliative care physician who reflects on how perspectives on hastening death have changed in recent years. A foreword written by National Humanities Medal recipient Abraham Verghese, MD, further rounds out the book.The collection of thirty-two essays is organized around several themes:• the practice of medicine • medical innovation and research• patient-centered care• the doctor-patient relationship• disparities and discrimination• aging and end-of-life care• maternity and childbirth• opioids and substance abuseContributors: Louise Aronson, Laura Arrowsmith, Cheryl Bettigole, Cindy Brach, Gary Epstein-Lubow, Jonathan Friedlaender, Patricia Gabow, Katti Gray, Yasmin Sokkar Harker, Timothy Hoff, Carla Keirns, Raya Elfadel Kheirbek, Katy B. Kozhimannil, Pooja Lagisetty, Maria Maldonado, Maureen A. Mavrinac, Diane E. Meier, Dina Keller Moss, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Donna Jackson Nakazawa, Travis N. Rieder, Aroonsiri Sangarlangkarn, Elaine Schattner, Janice Lynch Schuster, Myrick C. Shinall, Gayathri Subramanian, Louis W. Sullivan, Gautham K. Suresh, Abraham Verghese, Otis Warren, Leana S. Wen, Charlotte Yeh

Drawn from the popular "Narrative Matters" column in the journal Health Affairs, these essays embody a vision for a health care system that centers the humanity of patients and doctors alike.Health care decision making affects patients and families first and foremost, yet their perspectives are not always factored into health policy deliberations and discussions. In this anthology, Jessica Bylander brings together the personal stories of the patients, physicians, caregivers, policy makers, and others whose writings add much-needed human context to health care decision making.Drawn from the popular "Narrative Matters" column in the leading health policy journal Health Affairs, this collection features essays by some of the leading minds in health care today, including Pulitzer Prize–winner Siddhartha Mukherjee, MacArthur fellow Diane Meier, former Planned Parenthood president Leana S. Wen, and former secretary of health and human services Louis W. Sullivan. The collection also presents important stories from lesser-known voices, including a transgender doctor in Oklahoma who calls for better treatment of trans patients and a palliative care physician who reflects on how perspectives on hastening death have changed in recent years. A foreword written by National Humanities Medal recipient Abraham Verghese, MD, further rounds out the book.The collection of thirty-two essays is organized around several themes:• the practice of medicine • medical innovation and research• patient-centered care• the doctor-patient relationship• disparities and discrimination• aging and end-of-life care• maternity and childbirth• opioids and substance abuseContributors: Louise Aronson, Laura Arrowsmith, Cheryl Bettigole, Cindy Brach, Gary Epstein-Lubow, Jonathan Friedlaender, Patricia Gabow, Katti Gray, Yasmin Sokkar Harker, Timothy Hoff, Carla Keirns, Raya Elfadel Kheirbek, Katy B. Kozhimannil, Pooja Lagisetty, Maria Maldonado, Maureen A. Mavrinac, Diane E. Meier, Dina Keller Moss, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Donna Jackson Nakazawa, Travis N. Rieder, Aroonsiri Sangarlangkarn, Elaine Schattner, Janice Lynch Schuster, Myrick C. Shinall, Gayathri Subramanian, Louis W. Sullivan, Gautham K. Suresh, Abraham Verghese, Otis Warren, Leana S. Wen, Charlotte Yeh

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial new epic of love, faith and medicine, set in Kerala, South India.

Novyj roman avtora "Rassechenija Stouna", srazu posle vykhoda amerikanskogo izdanija stavshij odnim iz glavnykh bestsellerov. Epicheskaja istorija o ljudjakh, Indii i meditsine.Juzhnaja Indija, semejnye tajny; slony, zaprosto prikhodjaschie v gosti poobedat; tainstvennye dukhi, obitajuschie v podpole; meditsina, ee romantika i grubaja realnost; gubitelnye strasti i tselitelnaja mudrost. A esche prikljuchenija, mechty, mnogo krasok, zvukov, sveta, chelovecheskikh istorij, vpletennykh v istoriju Indii. Vse nachinaetsja v 1900 godu, a zakanchivaetsja v kontse 1970-kh, khotja na samom dele sovsem ne zakanchivaetsja. Istorija neskolkikh pokolenij semi indijskikh khristian iz Keraly, udivitelnym obrazom svjazannaja s istoriej vracha-shotlandtsa rodom iz Glazgo, kotorogo sudba zanesla v Indiju. No vse zhe roman Abrakhama Vergeze - eto ne prosto semejnaja saga v ekzoticheskikh dekoratsijakh. Eto mudryj i dobryj rasskaz o tom, chto semju sozdaet ne krovnoe rodstvo, a obschnost sudby; chto vybor est vsegda, no ne vsegda est sily ego sovershit; chto vse my naveki svjazany drug s drugom svoimi dejstvijami i bezdejstviem i chto nikto ne ostaetsja v odinochestve.Perevodchik: Marija Aleksandrova

"Rassechenie Stouna" - istorija ljubvi dlinoju v zhizn, istorija predatelstva i iskuplenija, chelovecheskoj slabosti i sily dukha, izgnanija i dolgogo vozvraschenija domoj. V missionerskoj bolnitse Addis-Abeby pri tragicheskikh, istinno shekspirovskikh obstojatelstvakh rozhdajutsja dva malchika, dva bliznetsa, srosshikhsja zatylkami, Merion i Shiva. Rozhdennye prekrasnoj indijskoj monakhinej, malchiki osiroteli, edva uspev pojavitsja na svet. Iskusstvo i muzhestvo vrachej, razdelivshikh ikh srazu posle rozhdenija, opredelili ikh prednaznachenie. Merion i Shiva svjazhut svoe buduschee s meditsinoj, no kazhdyj pojdet svoej dorogoj. Ikh zhdet udivitelnaja, tragicheskaja i polnaja neverojatnykh sobytij sudba. Absoljutno schastlivoe detstvo i dramaticheskaja junost, poiski sebja i svoikh kornej, poiski ottsa, predatelstvo i strastnoe zhelanie iskupit vinu, ljubov, pokhozhaja na navazhdenie, i revnost, izedajuschaja dushu. I vse eto pod senju meditsiny, sostavljajuschej sut zhizni kazhdogo. Chto by ni proiskhodilo s gerojami etogo voistinu bolshogo romana, kakie by terzanija ni dovelos ispytat, glavnym dlja nikh vsegda ostavalas khirurgija - delo, radi kotorogo oni prishli v etot mir.Abrakham Vergeze - vydajuschijsja doktor, professor Stenfordskogo universiteta, proshedshij, podobno svoim gerojam, cherez vse stadii stanovlenija vracha, poroj v ochen slozhnykh uslovijakh. Ego roman "Rassechenie Stouna", vpervye vyshedshij poltora desjatka let nazad, sejchas uzhe po pravu schitaetsja klassikoj. Udivitelnaja proniknovennost i dostovernost, glubochajshee znanie professii i velikolepnyj literaturnyj stil pozvoljajut nazvat knigu Vergeze odnim iz samykh znachitelnykh meditsinskikh romanov poslednego stoletija.

En gripende familieroman fra Afrika og Amerika om fedre og sønner, leger og pasienter, kjærlighet og savn, hjemme og borte Marion og Shiva Stone er tvillingbrødre. Foreldrene -- en vakker, indisk nonne og en ung, flink, men folkesky britisk lege -- har et hemmelig forhold mens de arbeider på et misjonssykehus i Addis Abeba i årene etter krigen. Moren dør under fødselen, og faren rømmer, men guttene vokser opp på sykehuset. De får miljøet og fagkunnskapen inn under huden fra første dag. Samtidig beveger Etiopia seg på randen av katastrofen. Det er imidlertid ikke politikken, men kjærligheten til den samme unge jenta som kiler seg inn mellom tvillingene. Under dramatiske omstendigheter tvinges Marion til å flykte til USA, der han tar jobb på et slumhospital i Bronx. Når fortiden innhenter dem alle, må han støtte seg til to av dem han aldri har stolt på: faren som forlot ham, og broren som svek ham.En intenst spennende og rørende -- men også uventet morsom -- roman. En uforglemmelig reise gjennom én manns helt spesielle liv. En bevegende historie om den styrken og intimiteten, men også den merkelige skjønnheten, som ligger i det å kunne helbrede andre mennesker."En fantastisk bok! Virkelig, denne boka kommer til å bli en stor suksess. Den har alt: Nonner, sammenvokste tvillinger, borgerkrig og medisin -- det slo meg at hvis Vikram Seth og Oliver Sacks ble satt til å samarbeide om en firetimers episode av Grey's Anatomy, som skulle foregå i Afrika, kunne de bare håpe på å komme opp med noe så bevegende og underholdende ... En utrolig god roman." Mark Salzman.En av de beste romanene jeg har lest på lenge.. Robert Bly

En tolv år gammel jente blir giftet bort til en eldre mann og må forlate moren. Fra nå av skal hun bo i Kerala, ved kysten sør i India, og ta seg av ektemannens sønn og hjem. Slekten hun giftes inn i, er hjemsøkt av en forbannelse: I hver generasjon dør minst én person ved drukning. Og i Kerala er det vann overalt. Ammachi, som de kaller henne, blir en respektert matriark og en ledende skikkelse i lokalsamfunnet. Den eksentriske sønnen hennes Philipose og hans legedatter Mariamma fører slekten videre og knytter bånd langt utenfor Kerala. Men kan de komme til bunns i familiehemmelighetene og bli fri fra forbannelsen som har hengt over dem i generasjoner? Vannets pakt strekker seg fra 1900 til 1977, en tid med store omveltninger for India, med frigjøring fra Storbritannia og modernisering. Dette er en varm roman om kjærlighet, familiebånd og tidens gang. En hyllest til medisinske og politiske fremskritt, men også til tapte tider og de som kom før oss og banet vei.

Bestseller internacional * M s de 2 millones de ejemplares vendidos. Relanzamos esta historia apasionante que sigue a sus protagonistas a trav s de la India, frica y Am rica a lo largo de cinco d cadas. En el modesto hospital Missing de Adis Abeba, Etiop a, nacen dos gemelos, Marion y Shiva Stone, hijos de una monja india que muere en el parto y de un cirujano brit nico que desaparece sin dejar rastro. Los primeros a os de los hermanos Stone transcurren en el feliz microcosmos del hospital misionero, criados por un grupo de personas que se afana en curar a los enfermos, pero con el paso del tiempo sus vidas comenzar n a tambalearse ante la presi n de los acontecimientos que sacuden Etiop a, hasta que los hermanos se ven arrastrados por caminos diferentes. Esta historia apasionante sigue a sus protagonistas a trav s de la India, frica y Am rica durante cinco d cadas, en un gran fresco de un pa s muy poco conocido en occidente ENGLISH DESCRIPTION NATIONAL BESTSELLER * MORE THAN 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother's death and their father's disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles--and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined. This sweeping, emotionally riveting novel that shows how history and landscape and accidents of birth conspire to create the story of a single life (Los Angeles Times) is an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home.

I Vandets pagt fortælles en intens og dramatisk slægtshistorie, der strækker sig over tre generationer og mere end syv årtier. Vi skriver år 1900, da den tolvårige Mariamma sendes af sted med båd til Kerala i det sydlige Indien for at gifte sig med en fyrreårig enkemand. Trods alle Mariammas bange anelser bliver ægteskabet lykkeligt, og hun udvikler sig over de næste syv årtier til at blive familiens overhoved og det urokkelige centrum i huset Parambil. Hun må dog smerteligt erfare, at familien hjemsøges af en særlig forbandelse: I hver ny generation dør mindst én ved drukning, og i Kerala er der vand overalt. Vandets pagt er en fortælling om forældre og børn, læger og patienter, tilgivelse og sorg og om at tage sin skæbne på sig - alt sammen fortalt med udviklingen fra kolonialt styre til selvstændighed som det stærke bagtæppe. Bogen er den amerikanske læge og professor Abraham Vergheses anden roman. Hans første, Knivens æg (2009), lå på New York Times' bestsellerliste i tre år og er udkommet i flere end 50 lande, herunder i Danmark. Denne bog er oversat af Juliane Wammen og Morten Visby

Ny udgave med nyt omslag af Abraham Vergheses bestseller fra 2009. Tvillingebrødrene Marion og Shiva Stone er frugten af et dramatisk og forbudt kærlighedsforhold mellem en indisk nonne og en britisk kirurg, som begge arbejder på Missing – et hospital drevet af nonner i Addis Abeba. Fra den dag brødrene fødes på missionshospitalet har de kun hinanden: Moren dør i barselssengen, og faren forsvinder sporløst. Mellem brødrene opstår et stærkt bånd, ikke mindst på grund af deres fælles lidenskab for medicin og lægegerningen. Men deres opvækst er ikke udramatisk i et Etiopien, der befinder sig på randen af revolution og kaos. Det bliver dog ikke politik, men kærlighed til den samme pige, Genet, der splitter brødrene og tvinger Marion til at flygte fra sit hjemland. Han tager til New York, hvor han søger tilflugt i sit arbejde som læge på et overfyldt og underbemandet hospital i Bronx’ slum. Da fortiden indhenter ham, tvinges han til at lægge sit liv i hænderne på de to, han stoler mindst på i hele verden – faren, som forlod ham og broren, som forrådte ham. Knivens æg er en uforglemmelig rejse gennem én mands helt specielle liv. En fortælling, der spænder over tre kontinenter og fem årtier - om fædre og sønner, læger og patienter, svigt og selvopofrelse, hjem og eksil.

"One of the best books I've read in my entire life. It's epic. It's transportive . . . It was unputdownable!" Oprah WinfreyMariamma är tolv år och skräckslagen, när hon skickas i väg på en båt för att gifta sig med en fyrtioårig man hon aldrig träffat. Oväntat nog blir hon väl mottagen och äktenskapet blir lyckat. Snart förvandlas Mariamma till matriarken Big Ammachi som hela trakten tyr sig till; hon blir till en älskad centralgestalt i den lilla staden Parambil under kommande sju decennier. Under den tiden upptäcker hon att en förbannelse vilar över släkten och platsen. En märklig förbannelse där en person i varje generation drunknar, eller drabbas av ”tillståndet” som det kallas, något som sprider skräck i hela Kerala trakten, ett landskap som genomströmmas och omges av vatten.Vi får också följa Digby Kilgour, en skotsk läkare, som i koloniala tider reser från Glasgow till Madras för att bistå med sin läkarkompetens och med nya mediciner från väst. Genom romanen som sträcker sig över åtta decennier, sker också flera historiska stora händelser. Indierna slåss för britterna i världskriget. Indien blir självständigt. Nyheterna på radio tillkännager staten Kerala och kommunisterna segrar i valet.Vattnets förbannelse är pulserar av värme, humor och gripande livsöden. Det är en färgstark och bitterljuv berättelse om ett svunnet Indien, men också en lovsång till medicinska framsteg som räddat generationer och trotsat fördomar och vidskepelse.