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House on endless waters : a novel / Emuna Elon ; translated from Hebrew by Anthony Berris and Linda Yechiel.

by Elon, Emunah.

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Atria Books, 2020.

Family secrets -- Fiction.

Mothers and sons -- Fiction.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Fiction.

Holocaust survivors -- Fiction.

9781982130220 (hc.)

Bayit 'al mayim rabim. English

309 p. ; 24 cm.

Translation of: Bayit 'al mayim rabim.

Translated from the Hebrew.

"At the behest of his agent, renowned author Yoel Blum reluctantly agrees to visit his birthplace of Amsterdam to meet with his Dutch publisher, despite promising his late mother that he wouldnever return to that city. While touring the Jewish Museum with his wife, Yoel stumbles upon a looping reel of photos offering a glimpse of pre-war Dutch Jewish life, and is astonished to see the youthful face of his beloved mother staring back at him, posing with her husband, Yoel's older sister, Nettie...and an infant he doesn't recognize. This unsettling discovery launches him into a fervent search for the truth, revealing Amsterdam's dark wartime history and the underground networks which hid Jewish children away from danger-but at a cost. The deeper into the past Yoel digs, the better he understands his mother's silence, and the more urgent the question that has unconsciously haunted him for a lifetime-Who am I?-becomes."--Publisher.

Hebrew fiction -- Translations into English

Historical fiction.

Berris, Anthony.

Yechiel, Linda.

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