"Safari" by Julia Fermentto is an extraordinary debut novel, written from a fresh, blunt and uninhibited perspective, as never before seen on the Israeli literary scene. Its female heroines are restless, angry and morbid, and their lives revolve around consumerism and meaningless sex. They use vulgar language and are brimming with paranoia, sarcasm and cynicism.

The book is set in Tel Aviv's nightclubs, filthy apartments, and high-end restaurants at the start of the new millennium. In a decadent city obsessed with alcohol, cocaine, parties, sex and fashionable brands, "Safari" reveals an apathetic, hopeless, and degenerative generation of urban nihilists, who seem to live far away from a country coping with the tragic results of its failure in the 2006 Lebanon war. Politics and news, past and future, are strikingly absent, and penetrate the book's bubble only through fetishistic obsessions and trite dinner conversations.