A Woman in Jerusalem (Paperback)

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

General

Imprint:	Peter Halban Publishers Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2011
Authors:	A.B. Yehoshua
Dimensions:	197 x 130 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Dwarsligger / Flipback
Pages:	208
ISBN-13:	978-1-905559-24-4
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-905559-24-0
Barcode:	9781905559244

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