He stays true to that calling, even when surrounded by other physicians who are motivated by greed and glory. Cole is a man who feels called to be a healer. There's a consistency of quality from cover to cover, owing to the perfect marriage of fine writing and graceful editing. This is one of the most satisfying novels I've read in a long time.
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.
The Physician is the first book in New York Times best-selling 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. An orphan leaves Dark Ages London, taking a dangerous journey and posing as a Jew to study medicine in Persia, in "an adventurous and inspiring tale" ( Library Journal).Ī child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking her.
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