Noah Gordon

Rob Jeremy Cole ist gerade neun Jahre alt als er im Jahre 1021 von einem fahrenden Bader als Gehilfe angenommen wird. Dieser Croft ist nicht nur ein Genie, was den Verkauf seiner Elixiere und das Behandeln verschiedenster Leiden anbetrifft, sondern auch ein grosser Lebenskünstler. Der Bader lehrt Rob jedoch nicht nur die Grundlagen der Heilkunst sondern auch die Furcht vor der katholischen Kirche, da Bader in jenen Tagen häufig als Hexer auf dem Scheiterhaufen verbrannt wurden. Eines Tages hörte Rob von der berühmten medizinischen Akademie in Isfahan und beschliesst nach Persien zu pilgern und Arzt zu werden Doch seine Reise dorthin dauert Jahre und schliesslich verbringt er lange Zeit als "Jude" unter den islamischen Einwohnern Isfahans, bevor er als ausgebildeter Medicus wieder nach England zurückkehrt.

Der Medicus

Esta es la historia de una pasión. Esta es la crónica del increíble viaje del joven Rob Cole, de su lucha contra la enfermedad y la muerte, de su don místico para curar. Su sueño de convertirse en médico lo conduce desde la Inglaterra dominada por la brut

El médico

Robert Jeremy Cole, the legendary doctor and hero of THE PHYSICIAN, left an enduring legacy. From the eleventh century on, the eldest son in each generation of the Cole family has borne the same first name and middle initial and many of these men have followed the medical profession. A few have been blessed with their ancestor's diagnostic skill and the 'sixth sense' they call The Gift, the ability to know instinctively when death is impending. The tragedy of Rob J.'s life is the deafness of his son, Robert Jefferson Cole, who is called Shaman by everyone who knows him. Shaman's life is difficult. First, he must learn to speak so that he can take his place in the hearing world, and then he must fight against the prejudices of a society where physical differences matter. As Shaman struggles to achieve his identity, the Coles, along with the rest of America, are drawn into the conflict between the North and the South.

Shaman

Dr. Roberta Cole faces her hardest test--whether to keep the medical secret of a desperate girl or betray it to keep the love of the man who has erased the pain of her own failed marriage. Reprint.

Matters of Choice

"Mais que uma recriação histórica magistral, aqui está também a história fantástica de uma vocação para a Medicina. O romance de Noah Gordon recria o século XI de maneira tão eloquente que o leitor é levado em suas centenas de páginas por uma onda gigantesca de autenticidade e imaginação." O Publishers Weekly assim se referiu a O físico, de Noah Gordon, autor festejado como um dos maiores nomes do mundo literário norte-americano e presente em todas as listas dos livros mais vendidos. Votado um dos livros mais amados de todos os tempos na Madrid Book Fair e em pesquisa feita pela emissora européia ZDF, O físico conta a história do filho mais velho de um carpinteiro na Inglaterra medieval, Rob J. Cole, protagonista desta saga inesquecível que conquistou milhões de fãs ao redor do mundo. Ao tornar-se órfão, Rob J. passa a acompanhar um cirurgião de métodos duvidosos e acaba descobrindo um extraordinário dom: a habilidade de prever a morte. Em suas andanças, Rob J. terá que fazer malabarismo – literalmente - e brigar com um filhote de urso para entreter uma plateia. Mas é o encontro com o médico Merlin (o nome parece familiar?) que provoca uma mudança no rumo de sua vida, lançando-o em uma aventura no Oriente. A descoberta da medicina na Pérsia será, mais do que uma provação, o início de uma tradição que perdurará por gerações na família Cole. Disfarçando-se de judeu e se embrenhando em novos idiomas – o persi e o hebraico antigo - Rob J. tem um longo caminho pela frente. Para cumprir seu destino, ele irá defender-se de salteadores de estrada, assistir a brigas de bar e trabalhar na lavoura. Em sua epopéia, Rob J. descobrirá, ainda, o amor e o ciúme. Participar de uma grande maratona, sagrar-se médico, jogar xadrez com o rei da Pérsia e praticar enfim a tão sonhada técnica de curar são os ingredientes finais dessa trama inesquecível. O romance foi adaptado para o cinema em 2013 e estreou nos cinemas brasileiros em outubro de 2014.

A epopeia de um médico medieval

O físico

Der Schamane

The Jerusalem Diamond

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). 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 New York Times–bestselling author Noah Gordon’s Dr. Robert Cole trilogy, which continues with Shaman and concludes with Matters of Choice.

The Physician

He was a young American rabbi. She was his beautiful Christian wife. Together they tried to forge a life . . . "This big, ambitious novel comes as close to matters of faith and life as any book that has appeared. . . . Excellent."--New York Post First and foremost, Michael Kind was a man--a courageous man with strong ideals and feelings, a family man devoted to his two children, a passionate man deeply in love with his wife Leslie. He'd already become a rabbi when he met Leslie, a minister's daughter. She fell in love with Michael and converted to Judaism to marry him. This is their story, a sweeping drama of love and identity, of compassion and cruelty, a searing tale of one man and one woman who must learn to cope with the complications of an unorthodox life in a world that will not accept them, in a world where rabbis and non-Jews do not fall in love--let alone marry . . . "A human and enlightening portrait of a rabbi as a man, called upon constantly to be something more than a man: of a rabbi as a husband and father with the weakness and problems of other men . . . A rewarding reading experience."--Los Angeles Times

The Rabbi

Languedoc, Francia, finales del siglo XIX. Josep lvarez descubre de la mano de un viticultor francs el arte de la elaboracin del vino. Desde ese momento, su vida estar determinada por esta pasin. A pesar de su juventud, Josep ha conocido el amor, las intrigas polticas y el trabajo duro, experiencia que, junto a su temprana vocacin, caracterizar su destino. Tras participar contra su voluntad en un complot que convulsionar la ya turbulenta escena poltica del momento, huye a Francia, donde trabajar para un viticultor. Pese a su temor de caer en manos de la justicia, decide un da volver a su hogar. Luchando contra los elementos, Josep emprende una aventura tan ardua como fascinante: la elaboracin de un buen vino. En torno a l, los habitantes de Santa Eullia: la joven viuda Marimar y su hijo Francesc; Nivaldo, el tendero de origen cubano; Donat, el hermano obrero, todos ellos personajes que pueblan esta rica novela. La bodega contiene la esencia anterior de Noah Gordon: historias personales de fuerza, personajes vitales, retratos fidedignos de una poca, plasmados con una sensibilidad y acierto que ha admirado a miles de lectores a lo largo de los aos.

La Bodega

Londres, en l'an 1021. Orphelin, Rob J. Cole, neuf ans, est recueilli par un barbier-chirurgien et devient son apprenti. Ensemble, ils sillonnent l'Angleterre. C'est une epoque ou l'on brule les sorcieres, ou la vie est dure et la mort vite venue... Mais Rob n'a qu'une idee en tete: devenir medecin et il a un terrible don: il sent si un patient va mourir lorsqu'il lui prend la main. Ayant appris qu'on peut etudier serieusement la medecine chez les Arabes, Rob n'hesite pas et, a vingt ans, le voila qui traverse l'Europe pour gagner l'Orient. Comme chez les Arabes on n'admet pas les chretiens, il va se faire passer pour juif... "Le Medecin d'Ispahan" est un formidable roman d'aventures. C'est l'histoire d'un homme enflamme d'une passion devorante: vaincre la mort et la maladie, guerir. Pour atteindre son but, il fuira la brutalite et l'ignorance de l'Angleterre du xie siecle, traversera tout un continent pour decouvrir la cour de Perse, le monde etonnant des universites arabes et la chaude sensualite des palais d'Ispahan. Et, dominant tout cela, "Le Medecin d'Ispahan" est la magnifique histoire d'un amour que rien ne parvient a detruire. "

Le Médecin d'Ispahan

Az orvosdoktor

Im Jahre 1492 hat die Inquisition Spanien fest im Griff. Per Edikt wird verkündet, dass alle Juden das Land zu verlassen hätten, und ein grosser Exodus beginnt. Jona, der dreizehnjährige Sohn des jüdischen Silberschmiedes Helkias Toledano, steht nach der Ermordung seines Bruders Meir und dem Tod seines Vaters durch einen aufgebrachten Mob völlig allein da. Doch statt sich zum Christentum zu bekehren oder zu fliehen, beschliesst er, zu seinem Glauben zu stehen und sich auf eigene Faust durchzuschlagen. Für ihn beginnt eine abenteuerliche Odyssee kreuz und quer durch Spanien. Drei Jahre und zahllose Abenteuer später, im Sommer 1495, ist Jona zu einem kräftigen jungen Mann herangewachsen, der gelernt hat zu überleben und sich dennoch nichts sehnlicher wünscht, als zur Ruhe zu kommen. In Granada begegnet er endlich wieder Glaubensgenossen: der Familie des Seidenhändlers Saadi, die immer noch heimlich ihre Religion praktiziert. Jonas Liebe zu Inés, Saadis schöner Tochter, muss dennoch unerfüllt bleiben. Ein Schiff bringt Jona nach Gibraltar, wo er als Lehrling bei dem Waffenschmied Fierro unterkommt. Fierro muss schliesslich selbst vor der Inquisition fliehen und bittet den jungen Mann, ihn zu seinem Bruder Nuno, einem alten Medicus, nach Saragossa zu begleiten. Als der Waffenschmied heimtückisch ermordet wird, beschliesst Jona, dennoch seinen Weg nach Norden fortzusetzen. In Saragossa angekommen, entscheidet die Begegnung mit Nuno Jonas Schicksal, denn er spürt sofort, dass in der Heilkunst seine wahre Berufung liegt ... Noah Gordon, 1926 in Worcester, Massachusetts, geboren, arbeitete lange Jahre als Journalist beim "Boston Herald". Mit "Der Medicus" gelang ihm ein Weltbestseller, der auch in Deutschland viele Monate auf der Bestsellerliste stand. Seine nachfolgenden Romane wurden ebenso sensationelle Erfolge. Noah Gordon hat drei erwachsene Kinder und lebt mit seiner Frau in der Nähe von Boston.

Roman

Der Medicus von Saragossa

The Death Committee

Die Erben des Medicus

Josep Alvarez versteckt sich vier Jahre lang, nachdem er Zeuge eines Mordes wurde. Dann wagt er die Rückkehr und versucht, auf dem Gut seiner Väter Wein zu keltern. Gerade als es ihm gelingt und er seinen Wein verkaufen kann, holt ihn die Vergangenheit wieder ein. Der einzige Mann, der weiss, dass er Zeuge des Mordes war, taucht auf. Bleibt ihm wieder nur die Flucht?

Der Katalane

In un remoto centro dell'Illinois un giovane medico scozzese, Rob J. Cole, stringe un profondo legame spirituale con un piccolo popolo di pellirosse. La sacerdotessa Makwa-ikwa lo affianca quotidianamente nelle cure ai malati con le sue arti magiche, introducendolo ai segreti più riposti della cultura indiana.

Lo sciamano

New York Times–bestselling author: In 19th-century Spain, the son of a vineyard owner builds a life for himself, but a dangerous plot threatens it all . . . Josep Alvarez is a young man in the tiny grape-growing village of Santa Eulália, in northern Spain, where his father grows black grapes that are turned into cheap vinegar. Joseph loves the agricultural life, but he is the second son, and his father’s vineyard will be inherited by his brother Donat, the firstborn. Josep needs to keep his hands in the soil. He yearns for a job growing grapes and for an opportunity to marry Teresa Gallego. In Madrid, an assassination plot, conceived against the political leader of Spain by men of wealth and power, creates a storm of intrigue that sucks into its vortex a group of innocent young farm workers in Santa Eulália. How Josep’s life is changed drastically by these events, and how, ironically, they gradually turn him into an inspired vintner with an evolving vision of life, is the fascinating story of The Winemaker.

The Winemaker

The New York Times–bestselling author’s historical saga of a family of healers—from Dark Ages London to Civil War America to modern-day Boston. In The Physician, an orphan in eleventh-century London, Robert Cole, becomes a fast-talking swindler. 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 by claiming he is a Jew, he studies under the world’s most renowned physician, Avicenna. Cole’s journey and love for a woman who must struggle against her only rival—medicine—make The Physician a riveting modern classic. In Shaman, Dr. Robert Judson Cole, nineteenth-century descendent of the first Robert Cole, travels from his ravaged Scottish homeland, through the operating rooms of antebellum Boston, to the cabins of frontier Illinois. In the wilderness he befriends the starving remnants of the Sauk tribe, who have fled their reservation. In the process, he absorbs their culture and learns native remedies that enrich his classical medical education. He marries a remarkable settler woman he had saved from illness. The Cole family is drawn into the bloody vortex of the Civil War, and their determination to survive in the midst of wilderness and violence will stay with the reader long after the final page. In Matters of Choice, Roberta Jeanne d’Arc Cole is the latest first-born descendant of Dr. Robert Cole. Favored to be named associate chief of medicine at a Boston hospital, she is married to a surgeon and owns a trophy residence in Cambridge as well as a summer house. But everything melts away. Her gender and her work at an abortion clinic cost her the hospital appointment. Her marriage fails. Crushed, she goes to her farmhouse in western Massachusetts, thinking to sell it, and finds an unexpected life. How she continues to fight for every woman’s right to choose, while acknowledging her own ticking clock and maternal yearning, makes this prize-winning third story of the Cole trilogy relevant and unforgettable.

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