The Physician, Paperback

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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.

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Noah Gordon

scriitor american · 1926–2021

Noah Gordon a fost un scriitor american. Gordon a absolvit în 1950 jurnalistica și engleza la Boston University. A fost corespondent mai mulți ani la publicația Boston Herald. Primul lui roman de succes a fost Rabinul. Au urmat o serie de succese literare cu romanele Doctorul, Șamanul, Matters of Choice.