Marianne Hauser's novel, "Prince Ishmael" (1989) was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and selected by the "New York Times" as one of the year's outstanding books.

A novel about the richly textured relationship between a father and his grown son. The father's ambiguities soon become the son's obsession and he finds himself digging deeper and deeper into his father's past in an effort to understand the man before he was a father.