A Woman in Jerusalem Paperback / softback
by A.B. Yehoshua
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A suicide bomb explodes in a Jerusalem market. One of the victims is a migrant worker without any papers, only a salary slip from the bakery where she worked as a night cleaner.
As her body lies unclaimed in the morgue, her employers are labelled unfeeling and inhuman by a local journalist.
The manager of human resources is given the task of discovering who she was and why she had come to Jerusalem. As the image of this once-beautiful dead woman begins to obsess him, the manager turns this duty into a personal mission - he is no longer just saving his company's reputation by trying to discover her identity and assure her of a dignified funeral.
He is now restoring her not only to her family and country but also to common humanity - whilst at the same time conquering the hardness of his own heart. "There are human riches here. The manager moves from a man who has given up on love to one who opens himself to it. And there are strange and powerful scenes - of the morgue, of the coffin, of the Soviet base where the manager passes through the purging of body and soul."Carole Angier, The Independent
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Peter Halban Publishers Ltd
- Publication Date:15/09/2011
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- ISBN:9781905559244
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Peter Halban Publishers Ltd
- Publication Date:15/09/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9781905559244