Roland's Labyrinth

by Anne Echols

Facilitated by Shlomit Ritz Finkelstein

Guest author will join us

 FICTION

296 pages

Available in Paperback and Kindle

This is in Provence, the end of the 15th and the beginning of 16th century. It is a historical fiction beautifully written and historically correct. There is an entire layer about how the Jews lived there, but this is not the main focus of the book. Roland, a young man from Barcelona who inherited a passion for healing others from his deceased mother, has rebelled against his family’s wishes and chosen to attend medical school in France. The university in Montpellier is the most prestigious medical school in all of Europe, and yet Roland is quickly disillusioned. Seeking more accurate knowledge of the body, he leaves Montpellier and apprentices himself to a surgeon in nearby Arles for the summer.       Roland soon finds himself with two mentors in Arles—Hubert, a master surgeon, and Isaac, a Jewish doctor who advocates searching for remedies in ancient texts and testing them on patients.

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