by Noah Gordon · Rizzoli · tapa dura · ISBN 9788817865494
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«Il medico di Saragozza» is a historical novel by Noah Gordon, published by Rizzoli in hardback (392 pages, in Italian).
Toledo, 1489. Yonah, a young man of Jewish origin, sees his brother murdered and his father executed by a mob. Alone, in a Spain shaken by the expulsion decree of the Catholic Monarchs and by the Inquisition, he must hide his identity to survive. His initiatory journey, full of dangers, reveals his vocation for medicine and the mystery surrounding his brother's death.
The novel was published in 2000 and its action is set in Spain at the end of the 15th century.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction with an interest in the Inquisition and initiatory journeys.
Noah Gordon was an American novelist.
