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Synopsis
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.
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Mr Mani New Statesman and Society) -- New Statesman and Society
A.B. Yehoshua has created a historical and psychological universe - nearly biblical in the range and penetration of its enchanting "begats" - with an amazingly real Jerusalem at its centre. -- Cynthia Ozick
For this is more than just a tale of one eccentric family; it has the relentlessness of the Old Testament, the contentiousness of Job. The Manis not only pass down their sense of guilt, the source of their quixotic and often tragic fate, they ask in each generation what it means to be a Jew: are we not all from the same seed, are we not all "Jews forgetful of being Jews"? -- Wendy Brandmark, The Independent
It is extraordinarily skilful to have captured the Jewish mixture of suffering and revival, despair and messianic hope, without in any way spelling out such heavy themes. -- David Pryce-Jones, The Financial Times
Yehoshua is a marvellous story teller but also a profoundly political writer, always arguing for uncertain humanism rather than zealous nationalism in a country where everyone lives on the front line. -- Nicci Gerrard, The Observer
Yehoshua's minutely researched novel ramifies out from the city to record the rich and wretched elements that have gone into the founding and continuation of the nation whose centre it has once again become. -- Peter Kemp, The Sunday Times
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A. B. Yehoshua was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2005
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- PublisherPhoenix
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 1857991850
- ISBN 13 9781857991857
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages384
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