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House on endless waters : a novel
- Title
- House on endless waters : a novel / Emuna Elon ; translated from Hebrew by Anthony Berris and Linda Yechiel.
- Author
- Elon, Emunah
- Publication
- New York : Atria Books, 2020.
- ©2020
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 21-157 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 309 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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."--
- Uniform Title
- Bayit ʻal mayim rabim. English
- Alternative Title
- Bayit ʻal mayim rabim.
- Subject
- 1939-1945
- Jewish authors > Fiction
- Jews > Netherlands > Amsterdam > History > Fiction
- Jews, Dutch > History > Fiction
- Family secrets > Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 > Fiction
- FICTION / Historical / World War II
- FICTION / Jewish
- FICTION / Literary
- Family secrets
- Jewish authors
- Jews
- Jews, Dutch
- Netherlands > Amsterdam
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- History.
- Note
- Originally published in Israel in 2016 by Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir ; English translation ©2020.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (page [311]).
- Language (note)
- Translated from the original Hebrew into English.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-157
- ISBN
- 9781982130220
- 1982130229
- 9781982130244 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019039570
- 40029762084
- OCLC
- 1104327591
- Author
- Elon, Emunah, author.
- Title
- House on endless waters : a novel / Emuna Elon ; translated from Hebrew by Anthony Berris and Linda Yechiel.
- Publisher
- New York : Atria Books, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Edition
- First Atria Books hardcover edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (page [311]).
- Language
- Translated from the original Hebrew into English.
- Chronological Term
- 1939-1945
- Added Author
- Berris, Anthony, translator.Yechiel, Linda, translator.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029762084
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-157