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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.
Harcourt
August 2006
On Sale: August 14, 2006
256 pages
ISBN: 0151012261
EAN: 9780151012268
Hardcover
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Literature and Fiction | Fiction
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.
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