by Noah Gordon · Roca Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496791626
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«El Médico» is the historical novel by Noah Gordon, published by Roca Editorial in 2007, in paperback (702 pages, in Spanish).
Rob J. Cole, a boy from London in the 11th century, soon discovers his calling for medicine and travels as an apprentice to a barber surgeon who roams England. His drive to heal impels him to cross a hostile Europe to Persia, where he tries to train with the renowned Avicenna. The journey shapes his destiny.
«El Médico» is the first instalment of the Cole family trilogy, translated into Spanish by Iris Menéndez; the saga continues with «Chamán» and «La doctora Cole».
For readers of historical fiction and family sagas, with an extensive plot set in the Middle Ages and centred on the medical vocation and the initiatory journey.
Noah Gordon was an American novelist.
