{"product_id":"the-physician","title":"Noah Gordon: The Physician [2012] paperback","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn orphan leaves Dark Ages London to study medicine in Persia in this \"rich\" and \"vivid\" historical novel from a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times-\u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware \u003ci\u003esomething\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Arab \u003ci\u003emadrassas \u003c\/i\u003eare 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Physician\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book in \u003ci\u003eNew York Times-\u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author Noah Gordon's Dr. Robert Cole trilogy, which continues with \u003ci\u003eShaman\u003c\/i\u003e and concludes with \u003ci\u003eMatters of Choice\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Gordon, Noah","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46551740776787,"sku":"9781453271100","price":35.1,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/gordon-noah-noah-gordon-the-physician-2012-paperback-9781453271100-57370881065299.jpg?v=1726860013","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/the-physician","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}