{"id":43,"date":"2026-04-25T11:11:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T11:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondreading.skoldpadda.se\/?p=43"},"modified":"2026-04-25T11:11:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T11:11:45","slug":"abraham-verghese-cutting-for-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"Abraham Verghese &#8211; Cutting for Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Abraham Verghese &#8211; Cutting for Stone:<br>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&#8230;<br><br>Text from: adlibris.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secondreading.skoldpadda.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cutting-for-stone.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-56\" style=\"width:153px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Format: Paperback<br>Length: 560 pages, 366 gram<br>Language: English<br>Publisher: Random House UK<br>Publication date: 2009-12-26<br>ISBN: 9780099443636<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abraham Verghese &#8211; Cutting for Stone: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 &#8230; <a title=\"Abraham Verghese &#8211; Cutting for Stone\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/?p=43\" aria-label=\"Read more about Abraham Verghese &#8211; Cutting for Stone\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abraham-verghese-cutting-for-stone","category-books","category-tore-toread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}