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The Harvard Square Book Circle
will discuss
A.B. Yehoshua's masterwork
Mr. Mani
The Harvard Square Book Circle, our in-store book club, will discuss A.B. Yehoshua's novel Mr. Mani, translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin. Written in a unique style that introduces characters with brief biographical sketches and then follows one side of their conversation (much like listening in one half of a stranger's telephone conversation), A.B. Yehoshua takes us back in history through six generations of the Mani family, from nineteenth century Greece and Poland to British-occupied Palestine to German-occupied Crete and ultimately to modern Israel. "A. B. Yehoshua belongs to that generation of Israeli writers who came of age in the years following the 1948 war of independence. In a fiercely wrought sequence of stories, novels and plays, he has attempted nothing less than a sustained critique of Israeli society.... Mr. Mani spirals in upon the origin of Israel's current malaise, offering a kaleidoscopic view of Jewish history filtered through the events of one family.... A. B. Yehoshua calls his...novel, Mr. Mani, an 'intergenerational psychoanalysis.' 'I wanted to understand the present by digging through the layers of the past," the...novelist said of the book, which traces six generations of an Israeli family. 'It takes a lot of imagination to identify with faraway times and places. I was trying to make the reader get more involved.'" —The New York Times
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