A woman in Jerusalem
By: A. B. Yehoshua ; translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin.
Contributors: Halkin, Hillel, 1939-
Publisher: Harcourt, Inc.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Orlando
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780151012268
Description: 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.