Mr. Mani by A B Yehoshua
Mr Mani is a profound and passionate epic, chronicling six generations of a Sephardi Jewish family from the mid-nineteeth century to the present. A B Yehoshua captures the reader's imagination through a series of five conver- sations, beginning with the present and delving back to the less-familiar past. Imaginatively constructed, the novel is a rich interweaving of history, psycho- analysis and poetry, with the city of Jerusalem - both spiritual and temporal - as the focal point of each episode, as the story moves back and forth between Europe and Jerusalem.
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
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| ISBN 13 | 9781857991857 |
| ISBN 10 | 1857991850 |
| Title | Mr. Mani |
| Author | A B Yehoshua |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 1994-03-14 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Prizes | Winner of Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize: Fiction 1993, Short-listed for Independent Foreign Fiction Award 1993 |
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