Touch the Water Touch the Wind

<p>A profusion of delightful passages couched in unfailingly lovely language. -- <i>New York Times Book Review</i></p><p>1939. As the Nazis advance into Poland a Jewish mathematician and watchmaker named Pomeranz 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 Pomeranz in Israel where as they move toward reunion another war is brewing. An intricate tale of people seeking escape from a hostile world in thrillingly fantastical ways.　</p><p><b>Lyrical . . . Its youthfulness and energy are exhilarating. -- <i>The New Yorker</i></b></p>