The author of bestselling such as The Doctor, The Last Jew, and The Shaman, Gordon was particularly successful in Spain.
The American Writer Noah Gordon, author of numerous best-sellers, He died this Monday at the age of 95 “in the privacy of his home”, announced his family in a brief statement issued on the website www.noahgordon.com
The family, recalling that he had just celebrated his 95th birthday on November 11, notes that “He leaves an immense void, and his memory will be a blessing for his family who loved him so much”It points out on its website, which also has a Spanish version.
Bestselling author as The doctor, The last jew and Shaman, Gordon was particularly successful in Spain, where the Editorial Roca, who published almost all his work, posted a tweet where He expresses his “immense sadness” but remembers that the writer “leaves a wonderful legacy”.
Gordon, from a Jewish family, was translated into numerous languages and his work “Touched millions of readers around the planet”, says the family.
A regular author at exhibitors in airports around the world, Gordon’s work was adapted for film on several occasions; of them, the most successful was the movie The doctor (O The healer), directed by Philipp Stolza and starring Tom Payne, Ben Kinglsey y Olivier Martinez.
As usual Among the authors of Jewish creed, the Hebrew world, and especially in medieval times, was one of those preferred by Gordon to create his literary world.
And yet he did not want to be compared to other American authors who explored the Jewish soul to obsessive extremes, such as Philip Roth O Saul Bellow, and he said he saw himself neither as a historian nor as a Hebrew ambassador, but rather a storyteller, more in the style of a Ken Follet.
“I wanted to write about the sense of belonging and what it means to be an American.”, Said last year to the web portal www.jewishboston.com, founded by the Jewish community of his city, Boston.
Out of all his works, Rabbi was the only one that was truly successful in the United States, where it reached spent 26 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list in 1965, but that success was no longer repeated.
Different was the case in Europe, and mainly in Germany: The doctor (his fourth work) sold 6 million copies in its German edition in 1986 before it had reached 10,000 books in the United States. (I)
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