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Tel Aviv Ennui: Yael Hedaya’s “Accidents”

May 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Culture and Ideas

Yael Hedaya’s Accidents is an intriguing, maddening novel of contemporary Tel Aviv-intriguing in its astute portrayal of the relationships between its characters, maddening in the shallowness of its vision. During the weeks I spent reading it, I wanted it to end so that I could move into a different, more profound fictional world-but neither could [...]

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