About the book: 2013 / "Stone's Cutting" is a lifelong story of love, betrayal and redemption, human weakness and fortitude, exile and a long return home. In the mission hospital of Addis Ababa, under tragic, truly Shakespearean circumstances, two boys are born, two twins joined at the head, Marion and Shiva. Born to a beautiful Indian nun from an English surgeon, the boys were orphaned in the first hours of life. The art and courage of the doctors who separated them immediately after birth determined their lives and fate. Marion and Shiva will connect their lives with medicine, but each will go their own way. An amazing, tragic and full of incredible events awaits them. Absolutely happy childhood and dramatic youth, the search for oneself and one’s roots, love that looks like an obsession, and jealousy that eats away the soul. And all this under the shadow of medicine. No matter what happened in the lives of the heroes of this truly great novel, no matter how tormented their fate, the main thing for them always remained surgery - the business for which they came into this world.