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A Journey to the End of the Millennium
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A Journey to the End of the Millennium Paperback - 2000

by Yehoshua, A. B

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In the year 999, when Ben Attar, a Moroccan Jewish merchant, takes a second wife, he commits an act whose unforeseen consequences will forever alter his family, his relationships, his business, and his life.

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  • Title A Journey to the End of the Millennium
  • Author Yehoshua, A. B
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Harvest Edit
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
  • Date 2000-05-01
  • Features Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 2229798-6
  • ISBN 9780156011167 / 0156011166
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.97 x 5.32 x 0.84 in (20.24 x 13.51 x 2.13 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
  • Library of Congress subjects Middle Ages - Fiction, Hebrew fiction - 20th century - Translations
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99045558
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Summary

In the year 999, when Ben Attar, a Moroccan Jewish merchant, takes a second wife, he commits an act whose unforeseen consequences will forever alter his family, his relationships, his business-his life. In an attempt to forestall conflict and advance his business interests at the same time, Ben Attar undertakes his annual journey to Europe with both his first wife and his new wife. The trip is the beginning of a profound human drama whose moral conflicts of fidelity and desire resonate with those of our time. Yehoshua renders the medieval world of Jewish and Christian culture and trade with astonishing depth and sensuous detail. Through the trials of a medieval merchant, the renowned author explores the deepest questions about the nature of morality, character, codes of human conduct, and matters of the heart.

First line

In the second watch of the night, finding himself woken by a caress, Ben Attar thought to himself that even in her sleep his first wife had not forgotten to thank him for the pleasure he had afforded her.

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Media reviews

"Extraordinary . . . Yehoshua is so graceful and eloquent that his work's timeliness also succeeds, paradoxically, in making it timeless."-The New York Times Book Review
"An immensely intelligent, humane book . . . A. B. Yehoshua is a world-class writer at the height of his powers."-The Boston Globe
"Wherever this innovative, erudite, suggestive, mysterious writer-a true master of contemporary fiction-points us, there can be no doubt, it is essential that we go."-Neil Gordon, the Washington Post

Citations

  • New York Times, 05/07/2000, Page 36

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