Woman in Jerusalem

Name: Woman in Jerusalem
Price: 3.34 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780156031943

ISBN-10: 0156031949

ISBN-13: 9780156031943

Edition: 2006

Authors: A. B. Yehoshua, A. B. Yehoshua

List price: $14.99

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy used: $7.87

Marketplace

4 new & used from $3.34

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

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…

Book details

List price: $14.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 8/6/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

A. B. YEHOSHUA is the author of numerous novels, including Mr. Mani, Five Seasons, The Liberated Bride, and A Woman in Jerusalem. His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages, and he has received many awards worldwide, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the National Jewish Book Award. He lives in Tel Aviv, Israel.