by Matt Cohen · Maeva Ediciones · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496231849
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«El médico de Toledo» is the historical novel by Matt Cohen, published by Maeva Ediciones in paperback (400 pages, in Spanish).
In sixteenth-century Toledo, the Jewish physician Abraham Halevi, trained in Montpellier, performs a caesarean section, something extraordinary for the time, which saves a life. His talent clashes with Cardinal Rodrigo Velázquez, determined to persecute Muslims and Jews, and Abraham, together with Gabriela, must flee the Inquisition.
Translation by Carlos Scola Pliego. Work originally published as The Spanish Doctor in 1985 and in Spanish in 2006.
For readers of historical fiction set in sixteenth-century Spain and of plots with a backdrop of religious intolerance.
Matthew Cohen was a Canadian writer who published both mainstream literature under his own name and children's literature under the pseudonym Teddy Jam.
