(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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