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Jonathan Safran Foer

    February 21, 1977

    Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of two bestselling, award-winning novels and a bestselling work of nonfiction. His literary contributions delve into the complexities of family relationships and historical events, employing a distinctive narrative style that masterfully blends humor, tragedy, and profound reflections on human existence. Through his writing, Foer invites readers to contemplate the world around them and their place within it. His prose is celebrated for its innovative approach and emotional depth, leaving a lasting impact on those who engage with his work.

    Jonathan Safran Foer
    A Convergence of Birds
    Eating animals
    Everything Is Illuminated / Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    Andy Warhol, ten portraits of Jews of the 20th century
    Haggadah
    Tree of Codes
    • 2020

      Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary.Visit the Penguin Readers websiteExclusively with the print edition, readers can unlock online resources including a digital book, audio edition, lesson plans and answer keys.Oskar Shell is a clever nine-year-old boy. When his father is killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11th 2001, Oskar wants to learn the secret about a key that he discovers in his father's closet. His search takes him on a journey through New York and into the lives of strangers and relatives. But will it bring him any closer to his lost father

      Penguin Readers Level 5: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
    • 2019

      Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming due to human activities. But do those of us who accept the reality of human-caused climate change truly believe in it? If we did, surely we would be roused to act, to make sacrifices now to prevent calamity in the future. How are we, ordinary civilians, supposed to do anything about a crisis for which we can barely sustain concern, of which our understanding is so incomplete, and from which we cannot imagine an escape? Will future generations distinguish between those who didn't believe in the science of climate change and those who said they accepted the science but didn't act? In We Are the Weather, Jonathan Safran Foer explores the central dilemma of our time in a surprising, creative, and urgent new way. We have, he reveals, turned our planet into a farm for growing meat, and the consequences are catastrophic. With the future of our home at stake, the time has come to consider how our descendants will judge our actions at this crucial moment. Collective action is needed. We might be able to pull it off--and it all starts with what we eat, and don't eat, for breakfast and lunch.

      We Are The Weather. Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
    • 2016

      A new novel from the bestselling author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. How do we fulfill our duties as father, husband, and son; wife and mother; child and adult? Jew and American? How can we claim our identities? These are the questions in Jonathan Safran Foers first novel in eleven years--a work of extraordinary scope and heartbreaking intimacy.

      Here I Am
    • 2012

      Haggadah

      • 160 pages
      • 6 hours of reading
      4.4(15)Add rating

      Recounts through prayer and song the story of Exodus, when Moses led the ancient Israelites out of slavery in Egypt to wander through the desert for forty years before reaching the Promised Land. This title brings together some of the most preeminent voices of our time.

      Haggadah
    • 2011

      Jonathan Safran Foer skillfully combines narrative and materiality to create a captivating story that emphasizes the physicality of the book in our screen-dominated world. - Olafur Eliasson, artist

      Tree of Codes
    • 2010
    • 2009

      From the Publisher: Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. But on the brink of fatherhood-facing the prospect of having to make dietary choices on a child's behalf-his casual questioning took on an urgency. His quest for answers ultimately required him to visit factory farms in the middle of the night, dissect the emotional ingredients of meals from his childhood, and probe some of his most primal instincts about right and wrong. Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir and his own detective work, Eating Animals explores the many fictions we use to justify our eating habits-from folklore to pop culture to family traditions and national myth-and how such tales can lull us into a brutal forgetting. Marked by Foer's profound moral ferocity and unvarying generosity, as well as the vibrant style and creativity that made his previous books, Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, widely loved, Eating Animals is a celebration and a reckoning, a story about the stories we've told-and the stories we now need to tell.

      Eating animals
    • 2007

      Jonathan Safran Foer has long had a passion for the work of the twentieth-century American assemblage artist Joseph Cornell. Inspired by Cornell�s avian-themed boxes, and suspecting that they would be similarly inspiring to others, Foer began to write letters. The responses he received from luminaries of American writing were nothing short of astounding. Twenty writers generously contributed pieces of prose and poetry that are as eclectic as they are imaginative, and the result is a unique collaborative project and one of the most significant engagements of literature with art for many years.

      A Convergence of Birds
    • 2005

      Contents: A primer for the punctuation of heart disease (short story). First published in the New Yorker magazine, 2002. And extracts from: Extremely loud and incredibly close (first published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2005).

      The Unabridged Pocketbook of Lightening