A Woman in Jerusalem - Softcover

Yehoshua, A. B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156031949 ISBN 13: 9780156031943

Publisher: HarperVia, 2007

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

Published in hardcover by Harcourt, 2006, 0-15-101226-1

About the Author:

One of Israel's preeminent writers, A. B. YEHOSHUA has been awarded the Israel Prize, the Koret Jewish Book Award, and the National Jewish Book Award. Born in Jerusalem, he lives in Haifa.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperVia
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0156031949
• ISBN 13: 9780156031943
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 237