House on Endless Waters
By: Emuna Elon
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
For fans of The Invisible Bridge and The History of Love, a lyrical and exquisitely moving novel ab…
Want to Read $ 1.99"In order to hand me over she had to detach herself from herself, and afterward she never managed to get back inside herself and continued, long after the war ended, living outside herself and observing her life without any emotion."-Emuna Elon, House on Endless Waters
"Two thousand five hundred. According to the documents Yoel has studied, that was the number of Jewish children hidden by Christian families during the war. Two thousand five hundred Jewish children, most of them from Amsterdam. According to Dutch law only those children with a surviving parent were eventually returned, while according to reality only those children whose surviving parent managed to find where they had been hidden were returned. Many children therefore remained with the families that had hidden them. Many of the hidden children were complete unaware that they were not the biological offspring of the people who raised them, Many are unaware of it to this days."-Emuna Elon, House on Endless Waters
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18. House on Endless Waters
By: Emuna Elon
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