by A . B . Yehoshua (Author)
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.
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.