Accidents: A Novel - Softcover

Hedaya, Yael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312426046 ISBN 13: 9780312426040

Publisher: Picador, 2006

Synopsis

For Shira Klein, Yonatan Luria, and his daughter, Dana, it is winter--winter at work, winter among friends, winter at home, and winter of the heart. Yonatan is a marginal writer, a fifty-year-old widower left to raise his child alone. When he meets Shira, a bestselling author paralyzed by stage fright, the thaw begins as man, woman, and girl enter a halting relationship, alternately tender and belligerent, generous and withdrawn.

About this title

About the Author:

Yael Hedaya is a journalist and humor columnist for the Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot, and the Tel Aviv weekly magazine Halr. She currently teaches creative writing at Tel Aviv University. Accidents, her first novel, was a bestseller in Israel. She lives in Tel Aviv, Israel.

From Booklist:

This first novel from the Israeli author of the short story collection Housebroken (2001) presents an intimate portrait of a family under construction. Yonaton Luria, a widower raising a precocious daughter, is an author suffering from writer's block. The loss of his wife and the duties of parenting overwhelm him. His daughter, Dana, suffers the pain of being an outsider at school. When Shira Klein, a best-selling author paralyzed by stage fright, meets Yonaton, romance develops. The author's detailed, slowly unfolding story captures the growth of affection and the conflicts inherent in new relationships. By presenting the views of parents, children, friends, neighbors, and former lovers, Hedaya is able to bring an impressive multidimensionality to her characters as they alternately care for a dying father, seek the approval of the cool group, and grapple with differing levels of success in their work. The novel was a critical and popular success in Israel and should find an appreciative audience among literary fiction readers in this country, especially those familiar with the work of Israeli authors David Grossman and Amos Oz. Barbara Bibel
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About this edition

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0312426046
• ISBN 13: 9780312426040
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464