A woman in Jerusalem / A.B. Yehoshua ; translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Hebrew Publication details: Orlando : Harcourt, Inc., c2006.Edition: 1st edDescription: 237 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 0151012261
- 9780151012268
- Sheliḥuto shel ha-memuneh al mashʾabe enosh. English
- 892.4/36 22
- PJ5054.Y42 S4913 2006
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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 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.--From publisher description.
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