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A Woman in Jerusalem

A.B. Yehoshua

A. B. Yehoshua was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2005

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.

A Woman in Jerusalem

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£12.99
Hardback
256 pages
198 x 132 mm
ISBN-10: 1870015983
ISBN-13: 9781870015981
Publication: April 2006
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