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A Woman in Jerusalem

By: A. B. Yehoshua, Hillel Halkin - translator
Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
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Summary

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.

At once profoundly serious and highly entertaining, A. B. Yehoshua astonishes us with his masterly, often unexpected turns in the story and with his ability to get under the skin and into the soul of Israel today.
©2004 A. B. Yehoshua and Hillel Halkin (P)2019 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Literary Fiction Psychological Jewish
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a genuine novel in a new genre.." Ivrit Lit "

many students of English literature start with Chaucers " Canterbury tales " stories of characters along their journey on a pilgrimage. perhaps students of 20th Century Hebrew Literature (Ivrit Lit)" May want to start with this neo absurd group of professionals in their mission to lay the corpse of a woman murdered in a terrorist attack to sleep.

will they succeed?

Well narrated and professionally translated into English.

who can hate the Israeli? they live on cucumbers, water melons, tomatoes, cottage cheese and bread.

Ar long last they are the one and onlyjewish (





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