Cutting For Stone, Abraham Verghese

This is a book of huge scope, the story of the lives of conjoined twins growing up in Addia Ababa. Deserted at birth by their father, and their mother who dies in childbirth. But it is also the story of the political upheaval in Ethiopia, and the description of the medical practices of the "adoptive' parents and both boys. The title comes from a part of the Hippocratic Oath, and from their last names.

The author, a doctor himself, has put a lot of detail in the telling of the story-perhaps too much, but it certainly is a wonderful "read".