On the night of his cousin Huda's wedding, Aziz hides alone in a Riyadh hotel room, determined to escape the celebration-and the memories it has awakened.
As the hours crawl past, sleeping pills fail to silence his mind. Thoughts of death, childhood grief, family resentment and a life shaped by depression begin to close in. At the centre of his torment lies Huda, the woman whose marriage forces him to confront the desires, betrayals and buried truths he has spent years avoiding.
Moving between one feverish night and the fractured memories of a lifetime, Accidental Death is an intense psychological novel about loneliness, obsession and the lasting wounds of family.
Dark, intimate and emotionally charged, Adel Al-Dosari's novel explores the dangerous boundary between escape and self-destruction-and asks whether facing the past is the only way to survive it.