![]() ![]() 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. ![]() ![]() 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. ![]()
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