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