![]() ![]() ![]() Missing, according to Marion, is a fertile place, a sort of paradise: The loneliness of the foreigners is part of the setting. ![]() Translation: the novel's setting is an unpronounceable hospital filled with foreigners.īesides the corruption of Mission to Missing, the hospital's name also constantly reminds us that, error or not, everyone there is "missing" someone or someplace. ![]() So it's fitting that they all take refuge in the hospital they call "Missing." The name seems strange, because it's "really Mission Hospital, a word that on the Ethiopian tongue came out with a hiss so it sounded like 'Miss ing'" (P.6). Most of Cutting for Stone takes place in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.Įven so, the majority of the characters are considered ferengi, foreigners, and that's because most of them were either born elsewhere or were born to immigrant parents. While outside there is chaos, danger, and poverty, inside of both Missing and Our Lady, the world is regulated by science and medicine. The characters live apart from the societies that their hospitals serve. Almost all of the action of Cutting for Stone takes place within one of two hospitals. ![]()
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