Abraham Verghese - literatura estadunidense

VERGHESE, Abraham. O 11º mandamento. Tradução de Donaldson M. Garschagen. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2011. 626p. Título original: Cutting for stone: a novel. filho de pais indianos, nasceu em Adis Adeba em 1955. Biography na internet:

Abraham Verghese, MD, MACP, is Professor for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Senior Associate Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine. Early Years Born of Indian parents who were teachers in Ethiopia, he grew up near Addis Ababa and began his medical training there. When Emperor Haile Selassie was deposed, he briefly joined his parents who had moved to the United States, and worked as an orderly before returning to complete his medical education at Madras Medical College. He later retured to the U.S. for his residency as one of many foreign medical graduates. Like many other foreign medical graduates, he found only the less popular hospitals and communities open to him, an experience he described in one of his early New Yorker articles, The Cowpath to America.