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 . A Woman in Jerusalem (dedicated to the memory of Dafna, a friend of the Yehoshuas who was killed by a suicide bomber on Mount Scopus in ), is divided into three parts: The Manager; The Mission, and The Journey. And if in the first two parts the manager is identified in variations of "the human resources manager," by the third part he has earned the honor of "Emissary," for he is now a man transformed . Israeli novelist Yehoshua (The Liberated Bride, , etc.) explores our obligations to the dead in an emotionally powerful novel. The central event—the death of a young woman—happens before the story opens, but informs all of what will come for the main character, an unnamed human-resources manager. Yulia Ragayev, a cleaning woman for a bakery in Jerusalem, is killed in a suicide bombing, and when .
A Woman in Jerusalem by A. B. Yehoshua. "He had now devoted three whole days to this woman, laboring faithfully on her behalf after giving his impulsive word to make her anonymous death his business." This short sentence (p. ) could stand on its own as a capsule of a human story, very much like Hemingway's famous: "For sale. 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 clea. Israeli novelist Yehoshua (The Liberated Bride, , etc.) explores our obligations to the dead in an emotionally powerful www.doorway.ru central event—the death of a young woman—happens before the story opens, but informs all of what will come for the main character, an unnamed human-resources manager.
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. 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. A Woman in Jerusalem, by A.B. Yehoshua Translated from the author’s native Hebrew this simple story of an unidentified foreign woman killed in a Jerusalem bomb attack drew me in. The main protagonist is a HR Manager of a large bakery organisation charged by the owner with finding out the woman’s story.
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