A. B. Yehoshua was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize
2005Six generations of the Sephardi Mani family are chronicled in this profound and passionate Mediterranean epic, which moves backwards chronologically from the 1980s to the mid-nineteenth century. The story comprises of five conversations, each centring on the fate of a different member of the Mani family, and in each the responses of one person are absent.