Since Christians were barred from Islamic schools, Cole disguises himself as a Jew. The novel, based on meticulous research, follows the odyssey of an 11th-century Scottish protagonist, Robert Jeremy Cole, who wants to study medicine in the Middle East, where medical schools were reputed to be more advanced than those in Western Europe. An award-winning musical based on the book is about to tour Spain. In 2013, “The Physician” was adapted into a German film, in English, starring Tom Payne, Stellan Skarsgard and Ben Kingsley. Gordon’s novels were on best-seller lists simultaneously. Gordon’s “The Physician” (1986) - the first book in a dynastic trilogy that began in 11th-century Persia, continued during the American Civil War with “Shaman” (1992) and ended with a modern woman doctor dealing with the morality of abortion in “Matters of Choice” (1996) - had an initial print run of only 10,000 copies in the United States.īut it eventually sold some 10 million copies, including more than six million in Germany, where, in the 1990s, six of Mr. Gordon’s debut novel, “The Rabbi” (1965), spent more than two months on The New York Times’s best-seller list.
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