A.B Yehoshua

"A masterpiece" about faith, race, and morality at a medieval turning point, from the National Jewish Book Award winner and "Israeli Faulkner" (The New York Times).

It's edging toward the end of the year 999 when Ben Attar, a Moroccan Jewish merchant from Tangiers, takes two wives—an act of bigamy that results in the moral objections of his nephew and business partner, Raphael Abulafia, and the dissolution of their...