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Woman in Jerusalem
A.B. Yehoshua
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Description for Woman in Jerusalem
Paperback. Now an award-winning feature film 'The Human Resources Manager' Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 210.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Halban Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
210g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781905559244
SKU
V9781905559244
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About 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 ... Read more
Reviews for Woman in Jerusalem
"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 ... Read more