A Woman in Jerusalem - Couverture souple

Yehoshua, A. B.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0156031949 ISBN 13 : 9780156031943

Editeur : Mariner Books, 2007

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 WOMAN IN JERUSALEM

"The force and deceptive simplicity of a masterpiece . . . embedded in this simple story are fundamental questions about identity, selfhood, belonging."?CLAIRE MESSUD, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

"A sad, warm, funny book . . . that has deep lessons to impart."?THE ECONOMIST

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Mariner Books
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0156031949
• ISBN 13: 9780156031943
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 237