A Journey to The End of The Millennium, 9781870015714
Hardcover
Set in 999 AD in Islamic southern Europe and Christian northern Europe, this is a love story about a Jewish merchant with two wives forced to travel from Tangiers to distant Paris to prove that he can love both wives as passionately and loyally as he would one.

A Journey to The End of The Millennium

a novel of the middle ages

$45.21

  • Hardcover

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    30 April 1999

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Summary

Sailing from the North African port of Tangier to a small, distant town called Paris are a Jewish merchant, Ben Attar, his two beloved wives and his Arab partner, Abu Lutfi. They have come for a meeting with their third partner the widower, Raphael Abulafia who has been forced to turn his back on their previous trading partnership because of his new wife’s distrust of the dual marriage of Ben Attar. The latter turns this annual trading voyage into a personal quest to legitimise his…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781870015714
ISBN-10:1870015711
Author:A.B. Yehoshua
Publisher:Peter Halban Publishers Ltd
Imprint:Peter Halban Publishers Ltd
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:30 April 1999
Weight:587g
Dimensions:238mm x 162mm x 28mm
About The Author

A.B. Yehoshua

Born in Jerusalem in 1936, the author lives in Haifa where he teaches Comparative Literature at the university. Apart from his novels, he writes and speaks frequently on the on-going struggle to find a permanent peace with Israel’s Arab neighbours

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