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A woman in Jerusalem / A.B. Yehoshua ; translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin.

by Yehoshua, Abraham B.

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Harcourt, c2006.

Victims of terrorism -- Fiction.

Gentiles -- Israel -- Fiction.

Jerusalem -- Fiction.

237 p. ; 22 cm.

"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."--Publisher.

Psychological fiction.

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