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Everything is Illuminated

byJonathan Safran Foer

Genres: Fiction Historical fiction

Who is this book for? Readers interested in humorous yet profound explorations of identity and history.

Topics FamilyIdentitySurvival

MoodHumorous, Reflective

HumorOccasional Humor

RomanceMinor Subplot

ViolenceMild

Explicit scenesSuggestive Themes

THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING NOVELADAPTED INTO A FEATURE FILM WITH ELIJAH WOODFrom the bestselling author of Here I Am, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and We are the Weather - a hilarious, life-affirming and utterly original novel about the search for truth'Gripping, hilariously funny and deeply serious. An astonishing feat of writing' The Times'One of the most impressive novel debuts of recent years' Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement'A first novel of startling originality' Jay McInerney, Observer'It seems hard to believe that such a young writer can have such a deep understanding of both comedy and tragedy' Erica Wagner, The TimesA young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Unfortunately, he is aided in his quest by Alex, a translator with an uncanny ability to mangle English into bizarre new forms; a "blind" old man haunted by memories of the war; and an undersexed guide dog named Sammy Davis Jr, Jr. What they are looking for seems elusive -- a truth hidden behind veils of time, language and the horrors of war. What they find turns all their worlds upside down...

Language

Published on

06/05/2003

Pages

288

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780141008257

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