Mr. Mani (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: A. B. Yehoshua
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: Mid-nineteenth to late twentieth century
- Setting: Israel/Palestine, Greece, Lebanon, Switzerland, and Poland
- Principal Characters: Gavriel Mani, Hagar Shiloh, Egon Bruner, Yosef Mani, Lieutenant Ivor Stephen Horowitz, Avraham Mani, Tamara Valero, Moshe Mani, Dr. Efrayim Shapiro, Linka, Rabbi Shabbetai Hananiah Haddaya
- Genres: Long fiction, Family literature
- Subjects: Family or family life, Traveling or travelers, Obsession, Jews or Jewish life, Middle East, Zionism
- Locales: Israel, Palestine, Greece, Switzerland, Poland, Lebanon
The author of ten previous works of fiction, including the novels The Lover (1978), A Late Divorce (1984), and Five Seasons (1989), Israeli writer A. B. Yehoshua continues his interest in the ironic obsessions of his characters in Mr. Mani, in which he also focuses on a sense of home in a Jewish context. This is an interest related to the problematic aspects of Zionism he analyzes in his collection of essays, Between Right and Right (1981).
The structure of Mr. Mani is based on five “conversations” in which only one of two speakers is...
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