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A Woman in Jerusalem
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
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Summary
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.
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.
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- 19-04-24
a new genre with a new profession.
this marvellous account of a pilgrimage of a human resources managers bid to lay to rest the body of an ex employee murdered in a terrorist attack unknown to most and probably unlawfully sexually harrased by her supervisor out of a job that she was overqualified for in a modern state, probably where sexual equality legislation is not as advanced as in other states.
Avraham B Jehoshua once again has shown his workmanlike abilities with prose to identify this fledgling State Israel s attempts, sometimes against all the odds to maintain that most judaic of customs: ie to honour the dead.
Well translated, well narrated,
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