A Woman in Jerusalem

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Publication Year:
2007

ISBN-13: 9780547546841

<DIV><B>This novel about the struggle to identify a nameless victim in the wake of a terrorist bombing in Israel is &ldquo;a masterpiece&rdquo; (Claire Messud, <I>The New York Times Book Review</I>).</B><BR /> &#160;<BR /> A woman in her forties is a victim of a suicide bombing at a Jerusalem market. Her body lies unidentified 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 &ldquo;gross negligence and inhumanity toward an employee,&rdquo; the bakery&rsquo;s owner, overwhelmed by guilt, entrusts the task of figuring out who she was, and burying her, to a human resources man.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> This man is at first reluctant to take on the job, but as the facts of the woman&rsquo;s life take shape&mdash;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&mdash;he yields to feelings of regret, atonement, and even love.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> At once profoundly serious, absorbingly suspenseful, and darkly humorous, <I>A Woman in Jerusalem</I> is a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize from the renowned author of <I>The Extra</I> and the New York Times Notable Book <I>A Journey to the End of the Millennium</I>.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> &ldquo;An elegantly structured, thoroughly accessible story, albeit one with rich philosophical layers&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. moves us with deep insights into the meaning of home, belonging and the fate of the stranger.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>Miami Herald</I></DIV>