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A Woman in Jerusalem

By A. B. Yehoshua, Hillel Halkin (Translator)

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| Hardcover | 9780151012268

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A woman in her forties is a victim of a suicide bombing at a Jerusalem market. Her body lies nameless in a hospital morgue. She had apparently worked as a cleaning woman at a bakery, but there is no record of her employment. When a Jerusalem daily accuses the bakery of "gross negligence and inhumaniContinue

A woman in her forties is a victim of a suicide bombing at a Jerusalem market. Her body lies nameless in a hospital morgue. She had apparently worked as a cleaning woman at a bakery, but there is no record of her employment. When a Jerusalem daily accuses the bakery of "gross negligence and inhumanity toward an employee," the bakery's owner, overwhelmed by guilt, entrusts the task of identifying and burying the victim to a human resources man. This man is at first reluctant to take on the job, but as the facts of the woman's life take shape-she was an engineer from the former Soviet Union, a non-Jew on a religious pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and, judging by an early photograph, beautiful-he yields to feelings of regret, atonement, and even love.

At once profoundly serious and highly entertaining, A. B. Yehoshua astonishes us with his masterly, often unexpected turns in the story and with his ability to get under the skin and into the soul of Israel today.

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  • What's interesting about this novel is that the person who is the most human is the woman who is dead and has been since the beginning of the story. And she is the only one in the story who has name. So far the other characters are known by how they function at work: the night supervisor, the human ... (continue)

    What's interesting about this novel is that the person who is the most human is the woman who is dead and has been since the beginning of the story. And she is the only one in the story who has name. So far the other characters are known by how they function at work: the night supervisor, the human resource manager or how they function in relationships, daughter, ex-wife...

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 256 Pages
  • Edition: 1
  • ISBN-10: 0151012261
  • ISBN-13: 9780151012268
  • Publisher: Harcourt
  • Pub date: Aug 14, 2006
  • Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback and Others
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