Description |
198 pages ; 20 cm |
Summary |
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 |
Notes |
This translation originally published: 2006 |
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Translated from the Hebrew |
Subject |
Migrant labor -- Jerusalem -- Fiction.
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Suicide bombings -- Jerusalem -- Fiction.
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Genre/Form |
Reading nook.
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Novels.
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Author |
Halkin, Hillel, 1939-
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ISBN |
1905559240 (paperback) |
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9781905559244 (paperback) |
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