The Physician ~ Paperback ~ Noah Gordon

The Physician ~ Paperback ~ Noah Gordon
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Now a major motion picture: Noah Gordon s beloved masterwork read by millions in thirty-five countries In eleventh-century London, a child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware "something" is taking her. Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. But as he matures, his strange gift an acute sensitivity to impending death never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer.Arab "madrassas "are the only authentic medical schools, and he makes his perilous way to Persia. Christians are barred from Muslim schools, but claiming he is a Jew, he studies under the world s most renowned physician, Avicenna. How the woman who is his great love struggles against her only rival medicine makes a riveting modern classic."The Physician" is the first book in Noah Gordon s Dr. Robert Cole trilogy, which continues with "Shaman" and concludes with "Matters of Choice.""Author BiographyNoah Gordon has had outstanding international success." The Physician," soon to be a motion picture, has been called a modern classic, and booksellers at the Madrid Book Fair voted it one of the 10 best-loved books of all time. "Shaman" was awarded the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for historical fiction. Both of these books, and five of the author s other novels "The Rabbi, The Death Committee, The Jerusalem Diamond, Matters of Choice, "and "The Winemaker" are published in digital formats by Barcelona eBooks and Open Road Integrated Media. Gordon s novel, "The Last Jew," will also be published digitally in the near future. He lives outside of Boston with his wife, Lorraine Gordon."