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Five voices speak backward across six generations, tracing one Sephardic family through war, exile, and the obsessions of Jerusalem.
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 novel unfolds each historical panel through an intimate domestic confrontation, balanced between private grief and public catastrophe. Yehoshua follows the family line through a young kibbutznik in the Negev, a German soldier in Crete, and a British military lawyer in World War I Jerusalem.
Across each interval, the chronicle anchors its drama in physical detail, moving from a Polish country estate and an ancient Cretan ruin to the stone alleys of Ottoman Jerusalem.
The narrative moves through time and is told in five conversations about the Mani family. It ends in Athens in 1848 with Avraham Mani’s powerful tale about the death of his young son in Jerusalem.
A profoundly human novel, rich in drama, irony, and wit.
- Unconventional Narrative Structure: Each encounter records only one speaker’s half of the dialogue, leaving the reader to reconstruct the missing partner’s questions, objections, and hidden grief.
- Father Son Relationships: Paternal duty, obsession, and the weight of ancestry haunt every generation.
- Psychological Family Drama: Late at night on an 1899 Polish estate, an ironic young pediatrician confesses to his father how an impulsive trip to a Jerusalem maternity clinic ended in scandal.
- Also by This Author: The Tunnel, A Woman in Jerusalem and The Extra.
Five voices speak backward across six generations, tracing one Sephardic family through war, exile, and the obsessions of Jerusalem.
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 novel unfolds each historical panel through an intimate domestic confrontation, balanced between private grief and public catastrophe. Yehoshua follows the family line through a young kibbutznik in the Negev, a German soldier in Crete, and a British military lawyer in World War I Jerusalem.
Across each interval, the chronicle anchors its drama in physical detail, moving from a Polish country estate and an ancient Cretan ruin to the stone alleys of Ottoman Jerusalem.
The narrative moves through time and is told in five conversations about the Mani family. It ends in Athens in 1848 with Avraham Mani’s powerful tale about the death of his young son in Jerusalem.
A profoundly human novel, rich in drama, irony, and wit.
- Unconventional Narrative Structure: Each encounter records only one speaker’s half of the dialogue, leaving the reader to reconstruct the missing partner’s questions, objections, and hidden grief.
- Father Son Relationships: Paternal duty, obsession, and the weight of ancestry haunt every generation.
- Psychological Family Drama: Late at night on an 1899 Polish estate, an ironic young pediatrician confesses to his father how an impulsive trip to a Jerusalem maternity clinic ended in scandal.
- Also by This Author: The Tunnel, A Woman in Jerusalem and The Extra.
A. B. Yehoshua (1936-2022) was born in Jerusalem to a Sephardi family. Drawing comparisons to William Faulkner and described by Saul Bellow as “one of Israel's world-class writers,” Yehoshua, an ardent humanist and titan of storytelling, distinguished himself from contemporaries with his diverse exploration of Israeli identity. His work, which has been translated into twenty-eight languages, includes two National Jewish Book Award winners (Five Seasons and Mr. Mani) and has received countless honors worldwide, including the International Booker Prize shortlist and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Woman in Jerusalem).
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 1993 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Importe, Märchen & Sagen |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9780156627696 |
| ISBN-10: | 0156627698 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Yehoshua, Abraham B. |
| Übersetzung: | Halkin, Hillel |
| Hersteller: | Houghton Mifflin |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 203 x 133 x 23 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Abraham B. Yehoshua |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.05.1993 |
| Gewicht: | 0,483 kg |
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