A Journey to the End of the Millennium из жанра Современная русская и зарубежная проза

A Journey to the End of the Millennium

Современная русская и зарубежная проза

Автор: Иегошуа Авраам Б.

Язык: английский

Год: 2012

Издатель: Halban

ISBN: 9781905559503

Переводчик: Nicholas de Lange

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Аннотация

The year is 999 A.D. Christians in Europe are preparing themselves for the arrival of the Messiah at the millennium and religious fervour is in the air. 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 and, equally important, to show others the richness and humanity in his way of life. A confrontation ensues between people of different cultures whose ways of living and loving are so different, and yet who are of the same religion, believe in the same God and in the same morality. Thus we enter a profound human drama...