A.B. Iheoshua - a major modern Israeli prose writer, playwright and essayist. In 1990, he released a multifaceted novel Mr. Mani, consisting of five dialogues, and in each of them the reader hears the voice of only one interlocutor, and only from his remarks can you guess about the reaction of others. The narrative moves freely from the events of the eighties of our century to the events of the late, mid and early nineteenth centuries, and geography covers Israel, Central Eurora, Crete, Greece, Turkey. Mr. Mani is a saga about one Jewish family, whose representatives experienced all the vicissitudes of Jewish fate and survived, despite the problems of self-identification that arose in each generation.