7/5/2023 0 Comments The Physician by Noah Gordon"Gordon's compelling novel recreates the 11th century so powerfully that the reader is propelled through its several hundred pages by a tidal wave of imagination and authentic detail." -Publishers Weekly "Populated by engaging characters, rich in incident and vivid in historical detail, The Physician] is a pleasure." -The New York Times " The Physician] has the flavor of Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth, but with a deeper character development and story arc. How the woman who is his great love struggles against her only rival-medicine-makes a riveting modern classic. Christians are barred from Muslim schools, but claiming he is a Jew, he studies under the world's most renowned physician, Avicenna. Arab madrassas are the only authentic medical schools, and he makes his perilous way to Persia. But as he matures, his strange gift-an acute sensitivity to impending death-never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer. Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. Read by millions in thirty-two countries, soon to be a major motion picture, and voted "one of the ten most-beloved books of all time," here is the first English-language digital edition of Noah Gordon's masterwork In eleventh-century London, a child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking her.
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