Harvest in translation
2 total works
From the opening lines of this first person narrative, the reader is propelled into the mind of Dr Benjamin Rubin, an ambitious internist. But when he is unexpectedly selected to accompany the hospital director and his wife to India to retrieve their ailing daughter, his experience there awakens an erotic passion in him.
Mr. Mani is a deeply affecting six-generation family saga, extending from nineteenth century Greece and Poland to British-occupied Palestine to German-occupied Crete and ultimately to modern Israel. The narrative moves through time and is told in five conversations about the Mani family. It ends in Athens in 1848 with Avraham Mani's powerful tale about the death of his young son in Jerusalem. A profoundly human novel, rich in drama, irony, and wit.