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Noah Gordon has had outstanding international success and his eight novels have been read by millions in thirty-five countries. The Physician, now a major motion picture, has been called a modern classic, and booksellers at the Madrid Book Fair voted it “one of the 10 best-loved books of all time.” Shaman was awarded the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for historical fiction. He lives outside of Boston with his wife, Lorraine Gordon.

“Noah Gordon fills out his story with the color, the changing moods, the confrontations, setbacks, advances, tears, laughter, hurts and healing that compose all lives, Jewish or gentile, that transform life itself into an excitement and a challenge . . . A chronicle rich with meaningful experiences.” —The New York Times

“This big, ambitious novel comes as close to matters of faith and life as any book that has appeared . . . Excellent.” —New York Post

“A story that moves and has heart, with characters that are so well drawn you hate to leave them at the book’s end.” —The Columbus Dispatch

“The Rabbi is no more a ‘Jewish novel’ than Going My Way was ‘a Catholic movie.’ Its appeal is universal.” —National Observer

“Few writers since Sinclair Lewis have sprawled with such magnificent ease over so large a part of the contemporary scene.” —Saturday Review