MR. MONEY

One of the great novels of modern Hebrew literature. This is a wide-ranging book, a Mediterranean novel about a Spanish family spanning about 200 years, whose story is revealed through 5 conversations at historical crossroads. The interlocutors (the reader is required to complete the part of one of them in the conversation) are "drawn" into the family story and each wonders about the riddle of his mani, which changes identity from generation to generation. The five parts progress "in the opposite direction", from the present to the past, and only after they have all been read can the reader stand on the full relationship between them, and discover in retrospect additional meanings and contexts, which he did not perceive during the reading. This is a journey into the labyrinth of 'belonging' and 'identity' in the multiplicity of aspects: family, tribe, nationality, race, up to history and prehistoric roots. Beyond the personal psychologies, the book outlines a mysterious formula, writte