A profound meditation on Jewish identity, history, and generational memory, Mr. Mani is a masterwork of modern Hebrew literature. Structured as a series of five one-sided conversations spanning six generations of the Sephardi Mani family, A.B. Yehoshua’s novel unfolds across pivotal moments in Jewish and world history—from 19th-century Greece to British Mandate Palestine, from Nazi-occupied Europe to contemporary Jerusalem. Through this innovative narrative form, Yehoshua explores the elusive nature of truth, the burden of inheritance, and the complex legacies of Zionism, assimilation, and diaspora.

Layered, literary, and deeply moving, Mr. Mani is both a family saga and a philosophical inquiry into the Jewish condition. For readers interested in postmodern fiction, Jewish history, and the echoes of the past that shape our present, this is an unforgettable reading experience.