From the author of The Physician and Shaman now comes this story of a
young man-the grapes he grows, the wine he fashions, the women he loves,
and his struggle against an evil that seeks to destroy him. Already an
international bestseller. Josep Alvarez is a young man in the tiny
grape-growing village of Santa Eulália, in northern Spain, where his
father grows black grapes that are turned into cheap vinegar. Joseph
loves the agricultural life, but he is the second son, and his father's
vineyard will be inherited by his brother Donat, the firstborn. Josep
needs to keep his hands in the soil. He yearns for a job growing grapes
and for an opportunity to marry Teresa Gallego. In Madrid, an
assassination plot, conceived against the political leader of Spain by
men of wealth and power, creates a storm of intrigue that sucks into its
vortex a group of innocent young farm workers in Santa Eulália. How
Josep's life is changed drastically by these events, and how,
ironically, they gradually turn him into an inspired vintner with an
evolving vision of life, is the fascinating story of The Winemaker.
"Conciseness is Gordon's greatest skill. He unfolds a plot branching out
far, until a panoramic view of a world past emerges-as vivid as the
great realistical novels of the 19th century." -Welt am Sonntag
(Germany) "So suspenseful that you cannot put it down." -Leipziger
Volkszeitung (Germany) "Gordon's healthy obsession with research, his
ability to create extremely realistic characters, and that innate
literary talent of his for which there's no explanation are certain to
make this book another best seller." -Elle Magazine (Spain) "A wonderful
book. Enjoy it with a good bottle of wine." -Bücher (Germany) Noah
Gordon has had outstanding international success. The Physician, soon to
be a 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. Both of these books, and five of the author's other novels-The
Rabbi, The Death Committee, The Jerusalem Diamond, Matters of Choice,
and The Winemaker-are published in digital formats by Barcelona eBooks
and Open Road Integrated Media. Gordon's novel, The Last Jew, will also
be published digitally in the near future. He lives outside of Boston
with his wife, Lorraine Gordon.
