Title: A woman in Jerusalem
First published: 2006
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.
Subjects: Suicide bombings, Fiction, Migrant labor, Suicide bombers, Pilgrims and pilgrimages, Victims of terrorism, Gentiles, Fiction, religious, Jerusalem, fiction, Terrorism, fiction
Places: Jerusalem
LC classification: PJ5054.Y42 S4913 2006