A Woman in Jerusalem - Couverture rigide

Yehoshua, A. B.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0151012261 ISBN 13 : 9780151012268

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006

Synopsis

Book by Yehoshua A B

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

Revue de presse :

PRAISE FOR A. B. YEHOSHUA
"Wherever this innovative, erudite, suggestive, mysterious writer-a true master of contemporary fiction-points us, there can be no doubt, it is essential that we go."-THE WASHINGTON POST

"Extraordinary . . . Yehoshua is so graceful and eloquent that his work's timeliness also succeeds, paradoxically, in making it timeless."
-THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0151012261
• ISBN 13: 9780151012268
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 256