A Woman in Jerusalem
by A. B. Yehoshua
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Author: A. B. YehoshuaTranslator: Hillel Halkin
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-08-06
ISBN: 0156031949
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Mariner Books
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Book Review: A Modern Classic!
Summary: 5 Stars
Yulia Rageyev was a Soviet immigrant to Jersualem, Israel. She was married and divorced mother of a troubled teenage son. Not much is known about her because she was an unidentified victim of a suicide bombing in Jersualem, her adopted hometown. A journalist and a bakery manager are on a mission to learn more about her life despite the lack of information. All they have is a pay stub from the bakery that she works at, they learn that she was an engineer and worked as a cleaning lady during the night shift. She wasn't Jewish. She had a Jewish lover but she had a deep love of Jersualem. The woman was middle-aged at 48 years old at the time of her death. Her body was laid in the morgue for a week before identification. Along the journey, we learn little about the names of the characters including the manager and journalist. We don't know Yulia's survivors which include her mother who lives in a remote village in Russia which takes days to reach by car. When they get there to lay Yulia in her final resting place, her elderly mother is baffled that she is not interred in her adopted hometown of Jerusalem. In the end of the novel, we learn a lot about life in Israel, the politics and red tape surrounding the death of one woman.
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