Bethlehem Road Murder: A Michael Ohayon Mystery

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		Bethlehem Road Murder: A Michael Ohayon Mystery
		Bethlehem Road Murder: A Michael Ohayon Mystery

基本信息·出版社：Harper Paperbacks
·页码：384 页
·出版日期：2006年08月
·ISBN：0060954922
·条形码：9780060954925
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·丛书名：Michael Ohayon Mysteries

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The body of a young Yemeni woman is discovered in the attic of a Bethlehem Road house, in a Jerusalem neighborhood famous for its impenetrability to outsiders. The victim, once a beauty, is no longer lovely -- her face has been brutally smashed.

More than the usual horror greets Chief Superintendent Michael Ohayon in the closed and inscrutable Baka, for an old love and an unfinished romance await him there as well. But much more is concealed beneath the surface of this gruesome homicide -- as tensions between Ashkenazim and Mizrahim, hostility between Arabs and Jews, the half-century-old business of kidnapped Yemenite children, and the al Aqsa Intifada of 2000 add fuel to a terrible fire that might never be contained.

作者简介

Batya Gur (1947-2005) lived in Jerusalem, where she was a literary critic for Haaretz, Israel's most prestigious paper. She earned her master's in Hebrew literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and she also taught literature for nearly twenty years.

媒体推荐 From Booklist
In her four previous Michael Ohayon mysteries, starring the brooding Israeli police inspector, Gur has explored several highly insular worlds (psychiatry and classical music, for example), much in the manner of P. D. James. The social and political realities of contemporary Israel, while always on the periphery of the action, have never taken center stage. That changes here, as Ohayon investigates the murder of an Israeli woman whose body is found in the attic of a building being renovated in the Arab quarter south of West Jerusalem. As he questions residents in the neighborhood, a boiling pot of tensions and prejudices, Ohayon uncovers the dead woman's obsession with the controversial kidnapping of Yemenite babies in the 1950s. Contrasting the still-smoldering hostilities between Yemenite and Ashkenazi Jews with the ongoing conflict between Arabs and Jews, Gur vividly evokes a landscape where violence is woven into the fabric of daily life. Ohayon unravels these snarled threads of ethnic hostility with all the care and determination of an archaeologist sifting through layers of stone in search of civilization. Another excellent entry in a uniformly strong series. Bill Ott
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

New York Times Book Review
"Gur takes infinite care with the exacting studies of the characters who give her stories their extraordinary vitality."

Publishers Weekly
"Gur’s outstanding police procedural...can hold its own eith the best work of P.D. James."
编辑推荐 From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Israeli author Gur's outstanding police procedural, her fifth Michael Ohayon mystery (after 1998's Murder Duet), can hold its own with the best work of P.D. James. Chief Superintendent Ohayon, a restrained and understated figure who will remind many of James's Adam Dalgleish, investigates the brutal murder of an attractive young woman whose bludgeoned corpse is found by chance in the attic of a house undergoing renovation in Jerusalem's Baka neighborhood. Despite a subordinate's suspicions of a Palestinian laborer who was working on the building, Ohayon sets his team to exploring the victim's complex relationships, which include those with her employer, an older lawyer who decided for some reason to give her a valuable apartment, and her mother, an immigrant who recently began attending secret meetings. The detective's discovery that the dead woman had been probing one of the worst scandals in Israel's history suggests that she might have been silenced because some individuals implicated in that horror feared disclosure. Gur excels at creating living, breathing secondary characters, and in Ohayon she has fashioned a three-dimensional, intelligent and empathetic hero whose patience and compassion lead him to the tragic truth. This engrossing psychological study should appeal to a wide readership, not just those fascinated with the promises and paradoxes of the Jewish state.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.




专业书评 From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Israeli author Gur's outstanding police procedural, her fifth Michael Ohayon mystery (after 1998's Murder Duet), can hold its own with the best work of P.D. James. Chief Superintendent Ohayon, a restrained and understated figure who will remind many of James's Adam Dalgleish, investigates the brutal murder of an attractive young woman whose bludgeoned corpse is found by chance in the attic of a house undergoing renovation in Jerusalem's Baka neighborhood. Despite a subordinate's suspicions of a Palestinian laborer who was working on the building, Ohayon sets his team to exploring the victim's complex relationships, which include those with her employer, an older lawyer who decided for some reason to give her a valuable apartment, and her mother, an immigrant who recently began attending secret meetings. The detective's discovery that the dead woman had been probing one of the worst scandals in Israel's history suggests that she might have been silenced because some individuals implicated in that horror feared disclosure. Gur excels at creating living, breathing secondary characters, and in Ohayon she has fashioned a three-dimensional, intelligent and empathetic hero whose patience and compassion lead him to the tragic truth. This engrossing psychological study should appeal to a wide readership, not just those fascinated with the promises and paradoxes of the Jewish state.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From Booklist
In her four previous Michael Ohayon mysteries, starring the brooding Israeli police inspector, Gur has explored several highly insular worlds (psychiatry and classical music, for example), much in the manner of P. D. James. The social and political realities of contemporary Israel, while always on the periphery of the action, have never taken center stage. That changes here, as Ohayon investigates the murder of an Israeli woman whose body is found in the attic of a building being renovated in the Arab quarter south of West Jerusalem. As he questions residents in the neighborhood, a boiling pot of tensions and prejudices, Ohayon uncovers the dead woman's obsession with the controversial kidnapping of Yemenite babies in the 1950s. Contrasting the still-smoldering hostilities between Yemenite and Ashkenazi Jews with the ongoing conflict between Arabs and Jews, Gur vividly evokes a landscape where violence is woven into the fabric of daily life. Ohayon unravels these snarled threads of ethnic hostility with all the care and determination of an archaeologist sifting through layers of stone in search of civilization. Another excellent entry in a uniformly strong series. Bill Ott
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

New York Times Book Review
"Gur takes infinite care with the exacting studies of the characters who give her stories their extraordinary vitality."

Publishers Weekly
"Gur’s outstanding police procedural...can hold its own eith the best work of P.D. James."

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