num_pages: 320
description: 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 mothers wartime experienceunearthing 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 Yoels older sister Nettieand an infant he doesnt recognize.This unsettling discovery launches him into a fervent search for the truth revealing Amsterdams dark wartime history and the underground networks which hid Jewish children away from dangerbut at a cost. The deeper into the past Yoel digs the better he understands his mothers silence and the more urgent the question that has unconsciously haunted him for a lifetimeWho 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.
language: English
title: House on Endless Waters
publisher: Atria Books