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Journey to the End of the Millennium
A.B. Yehoshua
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Description for Journey to the End of the Millennium
Hardcover. Set in North Africa, Spain, France and Germany in the turbulent, suspicion-ridden year prior to the first millennium. When Ben Attar, a Jewish merchant from North Africa, takes a second wife who lives in Paris, there are life-altering consequences. Yehoshua's previous books include "Mr Mani". Translator(s): Langes, Nicholas de; Lange, N.D.; Lange, Nicholas de. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 242 x 26. Weight in Grams: 588.
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 second wife, restore his honour, ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Peter Halban Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781870015714
SKU
V9781870015714
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99-50
About 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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