Amos Oz: TOUCH THE WATER, TOUCH THE WIND

Amos Oz’s “Touch The Water, Touch The Wind,” as a story of escape, is unforgettable. Polish watchmaker and schoolteacher Elisha Pomeranz and his wife Stefa, separated by the war during the Holocaust, both avoided the concentration camps. He escaped through the forests of Poland while she was able to make it to Russia. While in separate worlds, they continued to ‘escape’: he, through his passion in music and mathematics and she, among the old social idealists. On their reunion after several years, ironically, another war was brewing. Crafted using beautiful sentences and necessary fragments, the novel suggests some hints of mysticism and metaphysics.

I agree with those who call the novel evocative.

Rating: 4.0/5.0

{23 January 2010}