![]() Yet within the walls of Missing every day brings the normal complications in life – rickets, fistula, starvation, love.ĭespite being identical twins on the surface, in terms of personality the brothers could not be more different, and as they grow, the differences between them only become more glaring. Outside the Hospital, political machinations are rife: coups, plane hijackings and even war. Given the slightly incongruous names of Marion and Shiva Praise Stone, they grow up amidst the illnesses and operations of the hospital, both drawn to different practices of medicine. ![]() ![]() And not just any twins, these two are born conjoined. In a little hospital in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, known locally as 'Missing Hospital', a nun from India, against all possible odds, gives birth to twins. Summary: An absorbing tale of medicine, life, and the ties that bind for good or ill, this sprawling novel resists any neat summing up: it's more than a medical drama, more than the story of twin brothers, and very highly recommended indeed. ![]()
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