A WOMAN IN JERUSALEM by A. B. Yehoshua ( 9781905559244 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

A WOMAN IN JERUSALEM

By:

A. B. Yehoshua

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

1905559240

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9781905559244

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Publisher:

PETER HALBAN PUBLISHERS LTD

Pub. date:

15 September, 2011

Pages:

208

Description:

Now an award-winning feature film 'The Human Resources Manager'

Synopsis:

A suicide bomb explodes in a Jerusalem market. One of the victims is a migrant worker without any papers, only a salary slip from the bakery where she worked as a night cleaner. As her body lies unclaimed in the morgue, her employers are labelled unfeeling and inhuman by a local journalist. The manager of human resources is given the task of discovering who she was and why she had come to Jerusalem.As the image of this once-beautiful dead woman begins to obsess him, the manager turns this duty into a personal mission - he is no longer just saving his company's reputation by trying to discover her identity and assure her of a dignified funeral. He is now restoring her not only to her family and country but also to common humanity - whilst at the same time conquering the hardness of his own heart."There are human riches here. The manager moves from a man who has given up on love to one who opens himself to it. And there are strange and powerful scenes - of the morgue, of the coffin, of the Soviet base where the manager passes through the purging of body and soul."Carole Angier, The Independent

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