His fiction was translated into German, Dutch, French, Greek, Spanish, and Portuguese. He had been nominated for the Governor General's award twice, for 1979’s The Sweet Second Summer of Kitty Malone and 1996’s Last Seen. Matt Cohen is best known as the author of Emotional Arithmetic and Elizabeth and After. His final book of short stories, Getting Lucky, and his final Teddy Jam title, The Kid's Line, were posthumously published in 2001. Cohen's authorship of the Teddy Jam books was not revealed until after his death. He also published a number of children's books under the pseudonym Teddy Jam. Throughout his career, Cohen’s work garnered mixed reviews, but he received several awards for his writing. Cohen’s first book, Korsoniloff was published in 1969 and tells the story of a schizophrenic assistant professor of philosophy. Later in his career, he returned to education and served as visiting professor at several schools, including the University of Victoria and the University of Bologna. Matt Cohen lectured at McMaster University in religion for a year before turning his sights to writing as a full-time job. She must confront again the demons of her past, and the difficult balancing of guilt and love, good and evil, duty and desire. As the two men converge, the past swiftly upsets Melanie's precarious mental balance. Christopher, meanwhile, has become a novelist, and he too reenters her life. Years later, Melanie is able to offer Bronski, now an elderly heroic Russian dissident and a veteran of a Soviet gulag, a home with her family. For two years, the friendship of an English boy, Christopher Lewis, and the protection of an older man, Jakob Bronski, helped her survive. For behind Melanie's present life lies the terrible story of how, as a girl, she was interned at Drancy in Paris - the way-camp to Auschwitz, where she realized that her parents would never return. (At the heart of Emotional Arithmetic is a memorable woman.)Īt the heart of Emotional Arithmetic is a memorable woman: Melanie Winters, mother, and lover, middle-aged, eccentric, courageous, quirkily unpredictable - and deeply marked by her past. Try as he might to remain above the fray of religious and political struggles, Halevi is stripped of all he holds dear and dragged into controversy again because he senses what is morally right. Escaping Toledo, he returns to Montpellier where he finds friends, a wife, a family, and eventually a professorship, but religious rivalry again intervenes through the brutality of a worldly cardinal.
His cousin, Antonio, is cruelly tortured and Halevi euthanizes him in prison. His relationship with the beautiful, ambitious Gabriela founders as his people are scattered in yet another attack by misguided Christian zealots.
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He becomes a physician and surgeon in Montpellier and returns to the poor Jewish sector of his native city to live a dangerous professional life, serving the Christian rich. The story of Avram Halevi of Toledo, a late 14th-century Jewish doctor forced to convert to Christianity at the age of ten. (The story of Avram Halevi of Toledo, a late 14th-century.
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