Woman in Jerusalem（ISBN=） 英文原版

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.

A.B. Yehoshua is one of Israel’s pre-eminent novelists. He has
been awarded the prestigious Israel Prize for his lifetime’s
creative contribution to Israel, the National Jewish Book Award in
the US, the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize in the UK and was
shortlisted in 2005 for the first Man Booker International
Prize.