Mr. Mani

Name: Mr. Mani
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: A.B. Yehoshua
ISBN: 9780358316688

Author: A.B. Yehoshua

Narrator: Erin Bennett, Matthew Waterson, Neil Dickson, Nicholas Guy Smith, Jason Culp

Unabridged: 16 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 12/03/2019

Categories: Fiction, Sagas, Historical Fiction, Media Tie-in

Synopsis

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 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.

About A.B. Yehoshua

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).

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim

In this novel translated from the Hebrew, the author recapitulates Jewish history and the founding of Israel by tracing the personal histories of a line of men named Mani. I’ll give a very brief outline here, which rather than being a spoiler, will actually help you follow the book if you read it, a......more

Goodreads review by Siv30

הספר מורכב מ 5 שיחות בתקופות שונות של ההיסטוריה. שיחה ראשונה: הגר שילה משוחחת עם אמה יעל שלה על המפגש שלה עם מר מאני. הגר יתומה מאב, בת לקיבוצניקים וסטודנטית במכינה. כל השנים חייה בצל אמה שלה, היתמות ובחיפוש אחר אב, מנהלת רומאן עם אפרים מאני מרצה שלה במכינה האוניברסיטאית. אחרי חודש של היכרות, אפרים מא......more