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Bezig met laden... House on Endless Watersdoor Emunah Elon
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.   ) eliorajoy | Apr 1, 2024 |  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 | 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  Caroline_McElwee | Jan 5, 2024 | 4 stars.... ( ) Dreyfusard | Oct 15, 2023 | ) evatkaplan | Sep 12, 2023 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"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"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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