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House on Endless Waters

di Emunah Elon

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"For fans of The Invisible Bridge and The History of Love, a lyrical and exquisitely moving novel about a writer who embarks on a transformative journey in Amsterdam, where he discovers the shocking truth about his mother's wartime experience-unearthing a remarkable story that becomes the subject of his magnum opus. 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 would never 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. Evocative, insightful, and deeply resonant, House on Endless Waters beautifully illustrates the complex nature of identity and belonging, and the inextricability of past and present"--… (altro)
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This book was a bit difficult to read at times, but not necessarily because of the subject matter as I've now read more World War II books than I can count. Much of it flips from present day to the autobiographical historical fiction Yoel is writing about his presumed mother. I was also wondering at the beginning why there were no quotes marks around the quotes. But later the author used them. Many times it was sort of a stream of consciousness type of writing. Overall, the book was okay. ( )
  eliorajoy | Apr 1, 2024 |
I’m done House on Endless Waters. As promised there was a big plot twist at the end. I still find the book puzzling. The MC’s mother lied to him his whole life about who he was. He began his life as a Jewish child in Holland. He escaped as a child with his mother and his sister. His mother made him promise never to return to Holland. He became a famous Israeli author and a few years after his mother died he agreed to go to Holland to publicize his latest book. And while visiting a Jewish Museum there, he saw a film clip of his mother and sister with a male child who wasn’t him. Spurred by that, he returns to Holland to investigate his origins and write a novel about it.
At that point the book develops multiple story/time lines. He is in Holland in the present - his mother and sister and the boy who is not him are in Holland in the past - and sometimes they are all there in a present/past blend. He has a interesting encounter in the present in Holland with his own grandson. He realizes that as an adult he has had a blind spot where children are concerned. That he pretty much ignored them until they were older. His grandson plays an important role in reconciling Yoel with his past. I would have liked to better understand why his mother made the choices she did and why she never wanted him to know the truth. ( )
  dianeham | Mar 10, 2024 |
Israeli author Yoel Blum has been avoiding visiting Holland all his life, part of a promise he made his mother, but when his novels are translated into Dutch he is persuaded to go there. He puts pressure on his older sister Hettie to tell him secrets his mother kept from him, and after the initial visit, he returns to Amsterdam a week later and takes up residence in an old hotel to begin researching what he plans to be his next novel, a story that evolves out of his origins.

An interesting novel about the treatment of the Jews in Amsterdam during WWII.

Elon is trying to do several things in the novel, as well as the history of the era, she is offering an insight into the creation of a work of fiction that may evolve out of a true story, and showing how one might choose to present/style a novel. As someone interested in creativity this would be of interest to me, but I wonder if it over weights an already weighty subject.

My other main criticism is that I can never keep Yoel in my head at the age he should be, a man in his 70s+. It's not a problem I have often.

That said, the Amsterdam described is an Amsterdam I recognise and have visited 7-8 times. She certainly gets the place right.

Because of other reading I was familiar with the history in Amsterdam in this era. ( )
1 vota Caroline_McElwee | Jan 5, 2024 |
The strongest part of this novel is not its descriptions of the Nazi occupation on a Dutch Jewish family, although they are quite strong, but the way it illustrates the creative process by which an author transmutes experience into fiction. Emuna Elon's protagonist, Yoel Blum, is a prominent Israeli novelist sojourning in Amsterdam, where he researches his own family history -- both to quell his own inner demons, and to use in his next novel, a fictionalized account of his own family's experience during the Occupation. The reader of Elon's intricately constructed novel witnesses Blum seeking out new experiences that enable him to get into the heads of *his* characters, even as those same experiences teach Blum much about himself.

4 stars.... ( )
  Dreyfusard | Oct 15, 2023 |
good read about an author returning to Amsterdam to find what happened to his family during the holocaust. well done. learned a lot ( )
  evatkaplan | Sep 12, 2023 |
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"For fans of The Invisible Bridge and The History of Love, a lyrical and exquisitely moving novel about a writer who embarks on a transformative journey in Amsterdam, where he discovers the shocking truth about his mother's wartime experience-unearthing a remarkable story that becomes the subject of his magnum opus. 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 would never 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. Evocative, insightful, and deeply resonant, House on Endless Waters beautifully illustrates the complex nature of identity and belonging, and the inextricability of past and present"--

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