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A Woman in Jerusalem

A Woman in Jerusalem

by A . B . Yehoshua (Author)

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    Hardcover 2006

    $3.42

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    Paperback 2007

    $17.99
Synopsis

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.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 237
 Publisher: ORION
Published: 27 Apr 2006
ISBN 10: 1870015983
ISBN 13: 9781870015981
Book Overview: A. B Yehoshua is world-famous, published in every country, with a very loyal local and international readership. A profoundly human story about the loss and recovery of humanity.

Media Reviews
A B Yehoshua's will be visiting visit the UK in June and some excellent events and interviews have already been lined up: Events: GUARDIAN HAY FESTIVAL, Sunday 4 June CHATHAM HOUSE, Monday 5 June ICA, Monday 5 June THE WRITER'S CENTRE, Dublin, tbc Interviews: BBC WORLD SERVICE interview with Harriett Gilbert, Monday 5 June, 11.30am BBC WORLD SERVICE The World Today and World Update with Iain Croft, tbc
Author Bio
A.B. Yehoshua is one of Israel's pre-eminent novelists. He has been awarded the prestigious Israel Prize for his lifetime's creative contribution to Israel, the National Jewish Book Award in the US, the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize in the UK and was shortlisted in 2005 for the first Man Booker International Prize.