Literary places in Addis Ababa

Cutting for Stone

Abraham Verghese

Verghese's Addis Ababa is a highland capital of eucalyptus, corrugated iron and mission medicine, seen from a hospital where twin brothers are born and grow up. The map holds the old town around Piazza, the cathedral and the emperor's palace, and follows the city through the fall of Haile Selassie and the rise of the Derg before the story leaves Ethiopia for exile abroad.

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