A Woman in Jerusalem
$35.39
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
10 January 2012
Summary
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 …Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781905559244 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1905559240 |
| Author: | A.B. Yehoshua |
| Publisher: | Peter Halban Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Peter Halban Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 10 January 2012 |
| Weight: | 208g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 16mm |
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Critics Review
“There are human riches here. The manager moves from a man who has given up on love to one who opens himself to it. And there are strange and powerful scenes - of the morgue, of the coffin, of the Soviet base where the manager passes through the purging of body and soul.” (Carole Angier, The Independent) “Mr Yehoshua’s A Woman in Jerusalem is a sad, warm, funny book about Israel and being Jewish, and one that has deep lessons to impart - for other people as well as his own.” (The Economist) “This novel has about it the force and deceptive simplicity of a masterpiece…” (Claire Messud, The New York Times)”
About The Author
A.B. Yehoshua
Born in Jerusalem in 1936, A.B Yehoshua is the author of nine novels and a collection of short stories. One of Israel’s top novelists, he has won prizes worldwide for all his novels and was shortlisted in 2005 for the first Man Booker International Prize. He lives in Haifa where he taught comparative literature for many years and continues to be an outspoken peace activist.
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