A Woman In Jerusalem
A Novel

A woman is killed by a suicide bomber in an Israeli market. No one claims her body because, as we learn shortly, although she is not Jewish, she had immigrated to Israel from Russia with her Jewish husband and son. They returned but she stayed. It turns out that Israel has a law that, as a last reso......more

A Search For Love And Place A. B. Yehoshua's novel, "A Woman in Jerusalem" raises a number of difficult themes -- the nature of love, the search for identity, the importance of place -- but explores them unconvincingly. I don't think the novel succeeds. The story involves a dead non-Jewish woman, Yuli......more

Muore un'immigrata in un attentato terroristico. Un quotidiano accusa l'azienda presso cui lavorava di disumanità perché nessuno si era accorto della sua assenza. Il ricco proprietario incarica il responsabile delle risorse umane di scoprire come mai. E qui parte una vicenda "epica" (nello stile fin......more

Yehoshua ormai sta diventando il mio "scrittore da fine sessione d'esami": compro un suo romanzo dopo un esame, e poi a sessione finita aspetto che arrivi un periodo tranquillo, un finesettimana senza nulla da fare, e mi dedico solo alla lettura. Ci sarebbe da aspettarsi un'abitudine simile con i li......more

AB Yehoshua is one of my favourite Israeli writers. It was only when I started reading the book I realised I had also seen the film "The Human Resource Manager" which is based on the book. Both are great.......more