| Touch the water, touch the wind |  | Author: Amos Oz
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 2938707
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 179
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.8 x 1
ISBN: 0151908737
EAN: 9780151908738
ASIN: 0151908737
Publication Date: 1974
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Condition: Light wear. Well preserved.
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As the Germans advance into Poland in 1939, Elisha Pomeranz, a Jewish mathematician and watchmaker, escapes into the wintry forest, leaving behind his beautiful, intelligent wife, Stefa. After the war, having evaded the concentration camps, they begin to build new lives - Stefa in Stalin's Russia and Elisha in Israel, where, as they seek their reunion, another war is brewing.
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an eccentric look at the destruction November 16, 2007
An eccentrically lyrical novel of the Holocaust, Oz treats the destruction of Europe's Jews in a mythical vein. The main character is drawn as a cross current between science and religion; cast as a Christ-like figure, his ability to defy the laws of nature is balanced by his rationalism. In keeping with the title, the novel has a strange kind of levitation on the level of language; a kind of realism, it skims the surface of the reality it paints, giving the reader no deep insight into the psychology of the characters. This is not a flaw in Oz's writing. Rather, it is a lesson in metaphysics and mysticism. Touch the Water Touch the Wind is a mediation of what language can and can't explain in human experience.
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