By: EFE
By: EFE
The American writer Noah Gordon, author of numerous best-sellers, passed away this Monday at 95 years “in the privacy of your home,” his family announced in a brief statement issued on the website www.noahgordon.com .
The family, remembering that they had just celebrated their 95 birthday on 11 November, notes that “He leaves an immense void, and his memory will be a blessing for his family who loved him so much” , he points out on his website, which also has a Spanish version .
Best-selling author such as “The Doctor”, “The Last Jew” and “The Shaman”, Gordon was particularly successful in Spain , where Editorial Roca, which published almost all of his work, posted a tweet expressing his “immense sadness” but recalls that the writer ” leave a wonderful legacy lloso ”.
Gordon, from a Jewish family , was translated into numerous languages and his work “touched millions of readers around the planet,” says the family.
Regular author in airport exhibitors around the world, Gordon’s work was adapted for film on several occasions ; Of these, the most successful was the movie The Doctor (or “The Healer”), directed by Philipp Stolza and starring Tom Payne, Ben Kinglsey and Olivier Martinez.
As usual being common among the authors of Jewish creed, the Hebrew world, and especially in medieval times, was one of Gordon preferred 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 or Saul Bellow, and he said that he did not see himself as a historian or a Hebrew ambassador, but a storyteller, more in the style of a Ken Follet.
“ I wanted to write about the sense of belonging and what it means be American ”, said the past year to the web portal http://www.jewishboston.com , founded by the Jewish community of his city, Boston.
Of all his works, “The Rabbi” was the only one that had real success in the United States, where it came to be 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.
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