Cutting for Stone

I just finished reading the novel "Cutting for Stone." It is the first novel I have read in a long time, and I enjoyed it. It was a very intense story that pulled me in from the beginning and kept me attentive the whole way. That's partly because of the descriptions of life in Addis Ababa (which we visited recently) but mostly because of the vivid characters who's lives were interconnected in so many ways. I was also fascinated by the medical descriptions throughout the story. It is a tale of relationships that declares -

"The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not."