by A. B. Yehoshua · Mariner Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780156011167
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«A Journey to the End of the Millennium» is the historical novel by A. B. Yehoshua, published by Mariner Books in paperback (352 pages, in English).
Ben Attar, a Jewish merchant from Morocco, decides in the year 999 to take a second wife; the decision alters his family life, his relationships, and his business. To avert the conflict and protect his interests, he travels with his two wives to Europe on his annual journey: a drama of fidelity and desire in the medieval world of Jews and Christians.
Work originally published in Hebrew in 1996; this English edition includes the translation by Nicholas de Lange. Winner of the Koret Jewish Book Award.
For readers of historical fiction and Jewish narrative seeking a moral drama set in the Middle Ages.
Avraham Gabriel "Boolie" Yehoshua was an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright. The New York Times called him the "Israeli Faulkner". Underlying themes in Yehoshua's work are Jewish identity, the tense relations with non-Jews, the conflict between the older and younger generations, and the clash between religion and politics.
