A review by tensy
House on Endless Waters by Emuna Elon

4.0

Like a slow sunrise or sunset on the water, as depicted on the cover of Emuna Elon's novel, this story is an elegy to those who were lost in the Holocaust from Amsterdam and those who survived. This is also a book within a book, where the main character Yoel Blum, famous Israeli author, discovers something about his past that shocks and unmoors him so that he goes to Amsterdam to write about the past he never knew. Beautifully crafted with both stories, the real and imagined, overlapping as the novel reaches its inevitable conclusion.