“ has the flavor of Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth, but with a deeper character development and story arc. “Populated by engaging characters, rich in incident and vivid in historical detail, is a pleasure.” - The New York Times “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 Robert Cole trilogy, which continues with Shaman and concludes with Matters of Choice. The Physician is the first book in New York Times-bestselling author Noah Gordon's Dr. 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. But as he matures, his strange gift-an acute sensitivity to impending death-never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer.Īrab madrassas are the only authentic medical schools, and he makes his perilous way to Persia. Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. Robert Cole trilogy, which continues with "Shaman" and concludes with "Matters of Choice.An orphan leaves Dark Ages London to study medicine in Persia in this "rich" and "vivid" historical novel from a New York Times-bestselling author ( The New York Times).Ī child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking her. 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. Christians are barred from Muslim schools, but claiming he is a Jew, he studies under the world s most renowned physician, Avicenna.
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.
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.
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