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Woman in Jerusalem
By A. B. Yehoshua and Hillel Halkin
$14.00 pb

A woman in her forties is a victim of a suicide bomb at at Jerusalem market. Identified as a cleaning woman at a bakery with no record of her employment, her body lies nameless in a hospital morgue. When the bakery's owner is accused of heartlessness and negligence, he is overwhelmed by guilt and entrusts a human resources man to identify and  properly bury the victim. At first the man is reluctant to take on the job, but as the facts of the corpse's life are revealed,  he yields to feelings of regret, atonement and even love.

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