Mr Mani

by A . B . Yehoshua (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2002

  $12.37

  Six generations of the Sephardi Mani family are chronicled in this
  profound and passionate Mediterranean epic, which moves backwards
  from the 1980s to the mid-nineteenth century.
  The story comprises of five conversations, each centering on the fate of a
  different member of the Mani family, and in each the responses of one
  person are absent.
  Mr. Mani is surprisingly humorous, full of extraordinary historical
  perspectives, and deeply wise and compassionate. It is an imaginative
  tour-de-force.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1993

  $3.40

• New

  Paperback
  1993

  $21.86

  Mr. Mani is a deeply affecting six-generation family saga, extending from nineteenth-century Greece and Poland to British-occupied Palestine to German-occupied Crete and ultimately to modern Israel. The narrative moves back through time and is told in five conversations about the bizarrely fated Mani family. The climax takes place in Athens in 1848, with Avraham Mani's overpowering tale about the death of his young son, Yosef, in Jerusalem. This is a profoundly human novel, rich in drama, irony, and subtle wit.