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In the year 1492, the Inquisition has all of Spain in its grip. After centuries of pogrom-like riots encouraged by the Church, the Jews - who have been an important part of Spanish life since the days of the Romans - are expelled from the country by royal edict. Many who wish to remain are intimidated by Church and Crown and become Catholics, but several hundred thousand choose to retain their religion and depart; given little time to flee, some perish even before they can escape from Spain. Yonah Toledano, the 15-year-old son of a celebrated Spanish silversmith, has seen his father and brother die during these terrible days - victims whose murders go almost unnoticed in a time of mass upheaval. Trapped in Spain by circumstances, he is determined to honor the memory of his family by remaining a Jew. On a donkey named Moise, Yonah begins a meandering journey, a young fugitive zigzagging across the vastness of Spain. Toiling at manual labor, he desperately tries to cling to his memories of a vanished culture. As a lonely shepherd on a mountaintop he hurls snatches of almost forgotten Hebrew at the stars, as an apprentice armorer he learns to fight like a Christian knight. Finally, as a man living in a time and land where danger from the Inquisition is everywhere, he deals with the questions that mark his past. How he discovers the answers, how he finds his way to a singular and strong Marrano woman, how he achieves a life with the outer persona of a respected Old Christian physician and the inner life of a secret Jew, is the fabric of this novel. The Last Jew is a glimpse of the past, an authentic tale of high adventure, and a tender and unforgettable love story. In it, Noah Gordon utilizes his greatest strengths, and the result is remarkable and moving.

* A family saga of epic proportions, SHAMAN is the compassionate story of a nation in the making.

At Suffolk County General Hospital, three brilliant, vital young men are brought together by their ambition and their passionate dedication to life. But they work in the shadow of the Death Committee, a terrifying hospital tribunal where doctors judge one another and decide who is to blame when a death could have been prevented.During one memorable year, in love and fear, weakness and victory, the young doctors must face the crucial dramas and triumphs of hospital life. And ultimately, each must reconcile an inner struggle with the demands of his heritage.

With CHOICES, Noah Gordon brings to a close his great trilogy spanning the generations of the Cole dynasty.

* Set at the time of the Spanish Inquisition, all Jews are to be exiled from Spain. Orphaned Yonah manages to stay and learn physician's skills from a mentor.

Helbrederen er kåret til en av de ti mest elskede bøker til alle tider av Den spanske bokhandlerforening. Noah Gordons middelalderroman om fattiggutten Rob Cole og hans brennende ønske om å studere medisin ved universitetet i Isfahan i Persia, der legen, filosofen, astronomen og poeten Avicenna underviser, om møtet mellom europeisk uvitenhet, overtro og fordommer og den opplyste arabiske, islamske verden, har solgt over 6 millioner eksemplarer verden over.

Espa a. Siglo XV. Cuando Yonah es separado de los nicos miembros de su familia que quedan con vida, se ve forzado a abandonar su hogar en b squeda de un nuevo lugar donde poder establecerse sin tener que renunciar a sus creencias. El viaje inici tico de un jud o en la Espa a de la Inquisici n. Contrario a la conversi n e involucrado adem s en la investigaci n del robo de reliquias, inicia un largo periplo por la Espa a de la Inquisici n, durante el cual deber recurrir a su ingenio para salvaguardar su secreto. Los cambios continuos de identidad y de oficio ser n duros de encajar, pero las dificultades no har n sino forjar su personalidad y reafirmar sus or genes. Desde sus d as de pobreza y soledad hasta sus ltimos a os como reputado m dico, seguimos la vida de este extraordinario personaje y de un no menos interesante periodo hist rico, en el que las traiciones e intrigas estaban a la orden del d a. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION In the year 1492, the Inquisition has all of Spain in its grip. After centuries of pogrom-like riots encouraged by the Church, the Jews - who have been an important part of Spanish life since the days of the Romans - are expelled from the country by royal edict. Many who wish to remain are intimidated by Church and Crown and become Catholics, but several hundred thousand choose to retain their religion and depart; given little time to flee, some perish even before they can escape from Spain. Yonah Toledano, the 15-year-old son of a celebrated Spanish silversmith, has seen his father and brother die during these terrible days - victims whose murders go almost unnoticed in a time of mass upheaval. Trapped in Spain by circumstances, he is determined to honor the memory of his family by remaining a Jew. On a donkey named Moise, Yonah begins a meandering journey, a young fugitive zigzagging across the vastness of Spain. Toiling at manual labor, he desperately tries to cling to his memories of a vanished culture. As a lonely shepherd on a mountaintop, he hurls snatches of almost forgotten Hebrew at the stars, as an apprentice armorer he learns to fight like a Christian knight. Finally, as a man living in a time and land where danger from the Inquisition is everywhere, he deals with the questions that mark his past. How he discovers the answers, how he finds his way to a singular and strong Marrano woman, how he achieves a life with the outer persona of a respected Old Christian physician and the inner life of a secret Jew, is the fabric of this novel. The Last Jew is a glimpse of the past, an authentic tale of high adventure, and a tender and unforgettable love story. In it, Noah Gordon utilizes his greatest strengths, and the result is remarkable and moving.

Den unge vinbonde Josep flygter fra borgerkrig i Spanien og ender hos en fransk vinbonde i Languedoc, der giver giver ham arbejde. Da Josep en dag får besked om, at hans far er død, begiver han sig ud på den lange vandring hjem. Men vil det lykkes ham at komme hjem, eller vil han blive fanget af de røde baretter inden og slået ihjel? Hvad møder ham, hvis han når frem? Venter Teresa stadig på ham? Og er familiegården gået i arv til hans bror? Catalaneren er en fortælling om krig og fattigdom, om tilværelsens grusomhed og uretfærdighed, men også om kærlighedens natur, om venskab og forståelse. Endnu en underholdende og berigende historie af forfatteren til succesromanerne Shamanen og Helbrederen. Pressen skrev: »Hvis du er til den gode, rolige historie, der langsomt kryber ind under huden og bliver siddende i din krop længe og blødt, hver gang du lægger bogen fra dig, så er du helt sikkert til Noah Gordons fantastiske fine Catalaneren ... « ***** - IN »... en dejlig læseoplevelse. «

Dr. Robert Judson Cole forlader i 1839 det politisk urolige Skotland for at drage til Amerika. Her arbejder han i en periode som læge i Bostons slumkvarter, men drager derefter videre til Illinois, hvor han behandler både de lokale hvide og sauk-indianerne, som indvier ham i deres højt udviklede lægekunst. Hans søn, af indianerne kaldet Shaman, rammes som lille af en sygdom, som gør ham døv, man han lærer at leve videre med dette handicap og fører lægetraditionen i familien videre. Shamanen er andet selvstændige bind i amerikanske Noah Gordons succestrilogi. De to andre er Helbrederen og En kvindes valg. .

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.

La magistral historia de una vocaci n por la medicina que traspasar todas las fronteras. El extraordinario viaje que cambiar para siempre el rumbo de su vida. El m dico, un cl sico contempor neo, es la primera entrega de la saga de la familia Cole, la obra cumbre de Gordon. Inglaterra, siglo XI. A sus nueve a os, tras la muerte de su madre y la p rdida de su hogar, Rob J. Cole se da cuenta de que tiene un don extraordinario: con solo tocar a una persona puede descubrir si est o no cerca de la muerte. Bajo la tutela de Henry Croft, cirujano barbero que recorre el pa s ejerciendo de curandero, su don crece, as como su pasi n por la medicina. Tras la muerte de su maestro, Rob continua con el negocio, pero el encuentro con Benjamin Merlin, un m dico jud o que le habla del m s eminente doctor de la remota Persia, Ibn Sina o Avicena, le impulsa a hacer realidad su sue o. Movido por su pasi n por sanar y dispuesto a superar cualquier obst culo, Rob viajar a Oriente, haci ndose pasar por jud o y sumergi ndose en nuevos idiomas, dispuesto a estudiar medicina en la madraza de Ispah n. All marcar su destino y el de su familia para siempre. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION 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 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.

Un incre ble don que enlaza a varias generaciones. Un viaje lleno de amor, descubrimiento, guerra y vida. Cham n, secuela de El m dico, de Noah Gordon, sigue la estela de su predecesora y explora los desaf os de una poca convulsa y llena de conflictos. Norteam rica, siglo XIX. V stago de una familia que ha practicado la medicina a lo largo de los a os, el doctor Robert Judson Cole abandona su Escocia natal buscando un mejor futuro. Tras trabajar con el eminente cirujano Oliver Wendell Holmes, continuar rumbo al Oeste americano junto a su hijo, Robert Jefferson Cole, con el que comparte la pasi n por el arte de sanar. Padre e hijo partir n hasta la frontera de Illinois y de all a las tierras de Gettysburg, castigadas por la guerra, un territorio que los colonos todav a no han podido arrebatar a los indios sauk. Dispuestos a estudiar las desconcertantes tradiciones curativas de los nativos americanos, aprendiendo de su cultura y sus remedios, padre e hijo parecen haber logrado asentarse. Sin embargo, no han contado con el v rtice sangriento de la Guerra de Secesi n, de la que nadie puede escapar... ENGLISH DESCRIPTION An incredible gift that links several generations. A journey full of love, discovery, war, and life. Shaman, the sequel to The Physician by Noah Gordon, follows in the footsteps of its predecessor and explores the challenges of a tumultuous and conflict-ridden era. North America, XIX century. Descendant of a family that has practiced medicine over the years, Dr. Robert Judson Cole leaves his native Scotland in search of a better future. After working with the eminent surgeon Oliver Wendell Holmes, he continues westward across America with his son, Robert Jefferson Cole, with whom he shares a passion for the art of healing. Father and son will travel to the frontier of Illinois and from there to the war-torn lands of Gettysburg, a territory that settlers have yet to wrest from the Sauk Indians. Determined to study the puzzling healing traditions of the Native Americans, learning from their culture and remedies, father and son seem to have settled. However, they have not accounted for the bloody vortex of the Civil War, from which no one can escape...

La doctora Cole es una mujer de nuestro tiempo. Tiene cuarenta a os y su vida est determinada por un continuo conflicto de intereses. Esta moderna novela es la ltima entrega de la trilog a de la familia Cole, conformada adem s por El m dico y Cham n. Las exigencias del matrimonio frente a la ambici n profesional, los avances cient ficos frente a la conciencia social; la vida urbana frente al aprecio por los valores rurales, as como la lucha por preservar la vida frente al convencimiento del poder de decisi n de una mujer. Fiel a la tradici n familiar, que ha hecho de la medicina un sacerdocio, la doctora R.J. Cole decide dejar Boston para volver al campo y trabajar como m dico rural. All , en las colinas de Massachusetts, podr recobrar ese don de adivinaci n tan peculiar que ya distingui a sus antepasados y volver a descubrir aquellos placeres que la gran ciudad le hab a arrebatado. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION With Choices, Noah Gordon brings to a close his great trilogy spanning the generations of the Cole medical dynasty. Beginning with the legendary 11th-century doctor Robert J. Cole, each eldest son has borne the same name and middle initial, and some have possessed the uncanny "sixth sense" known as The Gift--the terrible and instinctive knowledge that someone is about to die. In Choices, it emerges again in the present, but this time in a daughter, Roberta Jeanne d'Arc Cole, known as R.J. She defies her beloved father when she chooses to study law rather than medicine, yet destiny is to overtake her when she realizes that she has inherited The Gift. As she holds the hands of a sick man, R.J. feels a dreadful certainty that he is going to die. Tragically, he is her own lover. Struggling with her grief, R.J. knows she must bow to the inevitable and become a physician. But her life changes when she moves to a small-town practice and is faced with a terrible dilemma.