A Journey To The End Of The Millenniu..., A.B. Yehoshua
A Journey To The End Of The Millenniu..., A.B. Yehoshua
List: $31.99 | Sale: $22.40
Club: $15.99

A Journey To The End Of The Millennium
A Novel of the Middle Ages

Author: A.B. Yehoshua

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Unabridged: 15 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 12/03/2019

Synopsis

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.

About 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).

Reviews

Goodreads review by L on July 21, 2012

This one was hard to get into, hard to read, and impossible to put down. It was hard to get into primarily because it is written from the male, merchant perspective and hard to read because both because the time and place are so distant that it was hard for me to connect and because there is so much......more

Goodreads review by Patrizia on August 28, 2017

Anno 999. L'Europa è in fermento per l'approssimarsi dell'Anno Mille. Ben Atar, ricco mercante ebreo parte da Tangeri alla volta di Parigi per ritrovare il nipote Abulafia. Compagni di viaggio di Ben-Atar sono il socio ismaelita Abu-Lufti, le due mogli e un rabbino andaluso, che ha il compito di con......more

Goodreads review by Gauss74 on September 03, 2013

Ogni volta che prendo in mano un nuovo romanzo di Abraham Yehoshua, già so che è come se stessi per infilarmi sotto le coperte per ascoltare una bellissima favola. E in questo caso in modo particolare, perchè si sta parlando di un viaggio su un antico veliero arabo attraverso il mondo medioevale tra......more

Goodreads review by Laurie on September 21, 2015

Rather than reading a novel, my experience with the A Journey To The End Of The Millennium, felt more like I was listening to an epic tale of a master storyteller one trips over in the corner of a dusty marketplace thousands of miles from home. I was captivated by the strangeness of life in early me......more

Goodreads review by Deborah on October 01, 2008

The other books I've read by this author are later works The Liberated Bride and A Woman in Jerusalem that have protagonists who are quintessential examples of the postmodern Israeli man. I was curious to see how this would translate into a medieval historical novel. The answer is, almost seamlessly......more

Add to Cart
Add to Wish List