A masterful epic about family, intimacy, and the wondrous beauty of healing others. Ethiopia in the 1960s: Marion and Shiva Stone, identical twin brothers, grow up as orphans in a mission hospital in Addis Ababa, the imperial city of Haile Selassie. Their mother, a beautiful Indian nun, died during their birth, and their father, a British surgeon, vanished without a trace. Marion and Shiva are inseparable, united by their fascination with medicine, but as they grow into young men, love—specifically their passion for the same woman—drives a wedge between them. Marion must flee his politically tumultuous homeland, arriving in America where he immerses himself in his work at a New York hospital. But then the past catches up with him, and he must put his life in the hands of...