Everything is Illuminated

Jonathan Safran Foer

Everything is Illuminated
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
29 September 2003
Pages
288
ISBN
9780141008257

Everything is Illuminated

Jonathan Safran Foer

Everything Is Illuminated is Jonathan Safran Foer’s bestselling novel of a search for truth. It is the inspiration for the Liev Schreiber film, starring Elijah Wood.

A 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…

An astonishing feat of writing: hilariously funny and deeply serious, a gripping narrative. Extraordinary  (The Times )

Jonathan Safran Foer was born in 1977. He is the author of Everything is Illuminated , which won the National Jewish Book Award and the Guardian First Book award; Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close , which is now a major film starring Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock; and Eating Animals. He is also the editor of A Convergence of Birds.

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