In this meeting of our monthly book club, hosted by HMTC’s Louis Posner Memorial Library, we will be discussing House on Endless Waters, by Emuna Elon, a page-turning family mystery about a writer who discovers his mother’s youthful face in historic film footage of the Dutch Jewish community before WWII, alongside his father, his older sister, and an infant he doesn’t recognize.
Shining a light on Amsterdam’s dark wartime history, this contemporary novel by the Israeli writer Emuna Elon follows one man’s startling discovery that his mother had a wartime baby he knows nothing about and that his own origins are not what he thought they were. This launches him on a fervent search for truth through the tangled path of the Holocaust in Holland, one in which he has to answer the question that has haunted him for a lifetime: Who am I?
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