How long does it take to read Cutting for Stone?
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese takes about 12 hours 1 minute to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 1 minute
A week or two of reading
First published 2009. 655 pages, about 180,125 words.
25 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 20 hours 1 minute |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 1 minute |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 30 minutes |
The page count is the median across 34 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Cutting for Stone is a novel narrated by Marion Stone, who is born in 1954 at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, together with his conjoined twin, Shiva. Their mother, an Indian nun working there, dies giving birth, and their English surgeon father vanishes soon after. Two Indian physicians at the hospital take in the infants and raise them as their own. The boys grow up amid medical work and Ethiopia's shifting politics, learning surgery and medicine from those around them. The novel combines vivid detail of medical practice with attention to the human side of care.
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Subjects: literary fiction, saga, Physicians, Brothers, Fathers and sons, Fiction
