A woman in Jerusalem /
Yehoshua, Abraham B., 1936-2022.
A woman in Jerusalem / A.B. Yehoshua ; translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin. - 1st ed. - Orlando : Harcourt, Inc., c2006. - 237 p. ; 22 cm.
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.
0151012261 9780151012268
2005033435
Victims of terrorism--Israel--Fiction.
Gentiles--Israel--Fiction.
Jerusalem--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
PJ5054.Y42 / S4913 2006
892.4/36
A woman in Jerusalem / A.B. Yehoshua ; translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin. - 1st ed. - Orlando : Harcourt, Inc., c2006. - 237 p. ; 22 cm.
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.
0151012261 9780151012268
2005033435
Victims of terrorism--Israel--Fiction.
Gentiles--Israel--Fiction.
Jerusalem--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
PJ5054.Y42 / S4913 2006
892.4/36