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    A Journey to the End of the Millennium: A Novel of the Middle Ages
    A Journey to the End of the Millennium: A Novel of the Middle Ages
    A Journey to the End of the Millennium: A Novel of the Middle Ages
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    A Journey to the End of the Millennium: A Novel of the Middle Ages

    By A.B. Yehoshua

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    “A masterpiece” about faith, race, and morality at a medieval turning point, from the National Jewish Book Award winner and “Israeli Faulkner” (The New York Times).
     
    It’s edging toward the end of the year 999 when Ben Attar, a Moroccan Jewish merchant from Tangiers, takes two wives—an act of bigamy that results in the moral objections of his nephew and business partner, Raphael Abulafia, and the dissolution of their once profitable enterprise of importing treasures from the Atlas Mountains. Abulafia’s repudiation triggers a potentially perilous move by Attar to set things right—by setting sail for medieval Paris to challenge his nephew, and his nephew’s own pious wife, face to face.

    Accompanied by a Spanish rabbi, a Muslim trader, a timid young slave, a crew of Arab sailors, and his two veiled wives, Attar will soon find himself in an even more dangerous battle—with the Christian zealots who fear that Jews and others they see as immoral infidels will impede the coming of Jesus at the dawn of a new millennium.
    From the author of A Woman in Jerusalem, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, this is an insightful portrait of a unique moment in history as well as the timeless issues that still trouble us today.

    “The end of the first millennium comes to represent only one of many breaches—between north and south, Christians and Jews, Jews and Muslims, Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews, men and women—across which A. B. Yehoshua's extraordinary novel delivers us.” —The New York Times
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateMay 1, 2000
    ISBN9780547541051
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    A.B. Yehoshua

    A. B. YEHOSHUA (1936-2022) was born in Jerusalem to a Sephardi family. Drawing comparisons to William Faulkner and described by Saul Bellow as “one of Israel's world-class writers”, Yehoshua, an ardent humanist and titan of storytelling, distinguished himself from contemporaries with his diverse exploration of Israeli identity. His work, which has been translated into twenty-eight languages, includes two National Jewish Book Award winners (Five Seasons and Mr. Mani) and has received countless honors worldwide, including the International Booker Prize shortlist and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Woman in Jerusalem).

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      It might be the translation, but it was a constant fight to remember where you are and with whom. The language itself felt very stiff and uncomfortable.Why did I continue reading it when there were so many times I wanted to pick up something that flowed? The description of a culture and its time always draws me in. I did finish it, but I must admit I was so relieved to do so.
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      Historical fiction by Israeli author, A.B. Yehoshua, set in the year 999 and heading toward the end of the millennium. This is a story of a Jewish merchant who has taken on two wives. His partner's wife does not approve of bigamy and wants the partnership to end. Ben Attar makes this long voyage to convince this woman that having two wives is a good thing and blessed by God. The trip is fraught with many difficulties. I think the whole plot line sounded really interesting but it is told in such a way that it is a chore to read.

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