A woman in Jerusalem / A.B. Yehoshua ; translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin.

By:

Yehoshua, Abraham B, 1936-2022

Contributor(s):

Halkin, Hillel, 1939-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Hebrew Publication details: Orlando : Harcourt, Inc., c2006.Edition: 1st edDescription: 237 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

0151012261
9780151012268

Uniform titles:

Sheliḥuto shel ha-memuneh al mashʾabe enosh. English

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Psychological fiction.

DDC classification:

892.4/36 22

LOC classification:

PJ5054.Y42 S4913 2006

Online resources:

Summary: 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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
single unit book	HAC Library - Holdings of the American Academy in Berlin HAC – 1st floor – Library Room – Open Stacks	R (Reference collection)	R:PJ5054.Y42 S4913 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		2023-7306

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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A woman in Jerusalem / A.B. Yehoshua ; translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin.