Mr. Mani
A Novel
A. B. Yehoshua
- New
- York
- Times
- Notable
- Book:
- A
- story
- of
- six
- generations
- of
- a
- Jewish
- family,
- by
- an
- author
- Saul
- Bellow
- called
- “one
- of
- Israel’s
- world-class
- writers.”In
- this
- novel,
- a
- winner
- of
- both
- the
- National
- Jewish
- Book
- Award
- and
- the
- first
- Israeli
- Literature
- Prize,
- A.
- B.
- Yehoshua
- weaves
- a
- deeply
- affecting
- family
- saga
- and
- an
- portrait
- of
- Jewish
- life
- over
- the
- past
- two
- centuries.The
- story
- moves
- backward
- through
- time,
- unfolding
- over
- the
- course
- of
- five
- conversations.
- On
- a
- kibbutz
- in
- the
- Negev
- in
- 1982,
- a
- student
- describes
- her
- strange
- meeting
- with
- her
- boyfriend’s
- father,
- Judge
- Gavriel
- Mani.
- On
- German-occupied
- Crete
- in
- 1944,
- a
- Nazi
- soldier
- recounts
- his
- attempts
- to
- hunt
- down
- the
- Mani
- family.
- In
- Jerusalem
- in
- 1918,
- a
- Jewish
- lawyer
- in
- the
- British
- army
- briefs
- his
- commanding
- officer
- on
- the
- forthcoming
- trial
- of
- the
- political
- agitator
- Yosef
- Mani.
- In
- a
- village
- in
- southern
- Poland
- in
- 1899,
- a
- young
- doctor
- reports
- back
- to
- his
- father
- on
- his
- travels,
- and
- on
- his
- sister’s
- romance
- with
- Dr.
- Moshe
- Mani.
- And
- in
- Athens
- in
- 1848,
- Avraham
- Mani
- reveals
- the
- heartbreaking
- tale
- of
- the
- death
- of
- his
- son,
- Yonef,
- in
- Jerusalem.Alfred
- Kazin
- hailed
- Mr.
- Mani
- as
- “one
- of
- the
- most
- remarkable
- pieces
- of
- fiction
- I
- have
- ever
- read.”
- Named
- as
- one
- of
- the
- best
- books
- of
- the
- year
- by
- Publishers
- Weekly,
- it
- is
- both
- an
- absorbing
- tale
- and
- a
- powerful
- statement
- about
- family,
- faith,
- and
- the
- weight
- of
- history.Translated
- from
- the
- Hebrew
- by
- Hillel Halkin
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