HOUSE ON ENDLESS WATERS

A famous Israeli novelist is shocked when his Holocaust survivor mother sends him to Amsterdam on a search for his true identity.

Joel Bloom is a successful Israeli writer whose books have been widely translated. To mark the publication of his third book to be translated into Dutch, he flies to Amsterdam to promote it. Although he was born there, this is his first trip back. In Amsterdam, Joel and his wife visit the Jewish museum. And there, in an old black and white movie depicting Jewish life just before the Holocaust, he spots his mother holding a baby. But Joel is sure that the fair-haired child is not himself. Did he have a brother? And if so, what became of him? When he gets back home, his sister tells him for the first time the story of his life, and his soul can no longer rest.

So he returns to Amsterdam to try and solve the mystery of the baby who disappeared. He is also determined to write his best book yet - a novel about his mother, her family, friends, and the leaders of the Amsterdam Jewish community who collaborated with the Nazis.

Emuna Elon's novel is a powerful human drama that foregrounds moral dilemmas and courageous decisions, and reads like a psychological-detective thriller.

Emuna Elon was born in Jerusalem to a family of rabbis and scholars, and was raised in Jerusalem and New York. She teaches Judaism, Hassidism and Hebrew literature, and has served as advisor to the Prime Minister of Israel on the status of Israeli women.