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A captivating first novel of family, sex, love, and death from an "extraordinary" writer of "remarkable emotional power" (Maureen Howard, Los Angeles Times Book Review) 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the thaw begins as man, woman, and girl enter a halting romance, alternately tender and belligerent, generous and withdrawn. To the accompaniment of a full chorus of voices-of friends, neighbors, ex-lovers, parents-speaking from the past as well as the present, this family in the making gropes its way toward the comfort of love while navigating through ordinary pains: a dying father, angry children, wounding moments, and a distressing difference in the writers' levels of success which they wish would vanish even as it grows. An ensemble story marked by Yael Hedaya's exquisite sensitivity, Accidents follows its cast through fragility, vulnerability, and joy, accruing the small events of unremarkable days to produce a grand vision of the shared life. Rarely has the fictional world of family been plumbed with such knowingness, humor, and love.… (mere)
I was interested in the characters and overall liked the writing, but there really was too much uninteresting detail. The ending was also a little too neat for such a realistic portrayal. ( )
All the stuff that is usually left out of a "regular" love story can be found in this - the real stuff. The smells, the flaws, the bickering, the uncertainty - all the things that make a real-life love story real. Hedaya has managed to take three characters who are all somewhat unlikable and somehow merge them into a likeable whole - or if not likeable, at least relatable. The characters in this book could be your neighbors, your relatives, your friends, or whoever else just walks down the street - their pain is real, as is their anger, their lust, and their love. And, as with real people, they are at times absolutely hilarious and at others absolutely heart-breaking! ( )
Very slow to get to get started, but interesting tale of two writers who meet through friends in modern day Jersasulem. He has been widowed, and has a 12 yr old daughter. It is a sad book too, about grief and aging parents. I thought it wonderful with a lot of backstory about the two main characters. ( )
Accidents, about managing grief and love at the same time, is an incredibly sad book. It's not just the subject matter - it's the unrelenting detail. There's no relief in the form of cataclysmic plot events, no opportunity to cry and get it over with. Instead, each uninspiring cafe meal, unflattering sweatshirt and anxiety attack grind slowly toward the end of the book.
I did wish the book was over with several times in the middle, but only because it was shedding an umbrella of gloom around my week, not because it was badly written. On the contrary, a lesser writer couldn't have summoned such a powerful feeling of real grief; not the cathartic novel kind, but the real everyday dull pain. ( )
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Dana saß auf einem Stuhl im Zimmer der Schulkrankenschwester und wartete.
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...he...shook his hand and said, “I hear you’re an author. You must be a leftist.”
He missed her. He missed her voice, with its hint of an American accent, and the scent of her body, and sometimes he missed her clothes, but more than anything he missed her talent for experiencing life instead of thinking it to death. Like one organ projecting pain onto another, (she) had spent ten years showering him with daily doses of the complete opposite of pain, the complete opposite of himself. Losing those gifts was, for him, the essence of being a widower.
There was a marble birdbath at its center. He had never seen a birdbath in Israel before and it looked pretentious and incongruous, both for Israeli birds and for Israelis.
“This is the living room,” Dana said, and gestured at the trilevel space like a museum docent with a broad sweep of the arm.
...it turned out to be nothing more than a flamboyant version of a dry pound cake.
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A captivating first novel of family, sex, love, and death from an "extraordinary" writer of "remarkable emotional power" (Maureen Howard, Los Angeles Times Book Review) 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 romance, alternately tender and belligerent, generous and withdrawn. To the accompaniment of a full chorus of voices-of friends, neighbors, ex-lovers, parents-speaking from the past as well as the present, this family in the making gropes its way toward the comfort of love while navigating through ordinary pains: a dying father, angry children, wounding moments, and a distressing difference in the writers' levels of success which they wish would vanish even as it grows. An ensemble story marked by Yael Hedaya's exquisite sensitivity, Accidents follows its cast through fragility, vulnerability, and joy, accruing the small events of unremarkable days to produce a grand vision of the shared life. Rarely has the fictional world of family been plumbed with such knowingness, humor, and love.
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