Mr. Mani

A. B. Yehoshua

1990

—I quite agree, sir. It was done a bit cavalierly and without a proper security check, because he had become known to everyone throughout the autumn months of the advance on Jerusalem. Which is why it shouldn’t surprise you, Colonel, that not a few men would like to see both him and the documents thoroughly terminated. And indeed, from now on he…

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A. B. Yehoshua

b. 1936

A. B. Yehoshua is an author, playwright, and essayist. Jerusalem-born, he served in the military, taught in Paris, and was a professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at Haifa University. Yehoshua has written numerous best-selling novels as well as nonfiction, children’s books, and plays. His essays have appeared in the Israeli and foreign press. In 1995, Yehoshua received the Israel Prize for Literature.

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