A Woman in Jerusalem by A B Yehoshua

A Woman in Jerusalem by A B Yehoshua

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.

A. B. Yehoshua is one of Israel's pre-eminent writers. His novels include A Journey to the End of the Millenium, The Liberated Bride and A Woman in Jerusalem, which was awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 2007. He lives in Haifa.

Translated from the Hebrew by Stuart Schoffman

Sonja Bougaeva was born in 1975 in St Petersburg, the city in which this story takes place. After studying painting at the Academy of Arts she worked as an apprentice in a film studio, in order to learn how to make animated
films. She now lives in Hamburg, and in 2006 she was shortlisted for the German Children's Book Award.

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ISBN 13	9780151012268
ISBN 10	0151012261
Titre	A Woman in Jerusalem
Auteur	A B Yehoshua
État	Non disponible
Type de reliure	Hardback
Éditeur	Houghton Mifflin
Année de publication	2006-08-01
Nombre de pages	237
Prix	Winner of L.A. Times Book Prize (Fiction) 2006
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