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An astonishing feat - The Times. 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.
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Everything is illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
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- Released
- 2005
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Jonathan Safran Foer
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 2005
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN10
- 0141025271
- ISBN13
- 9780141025278
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Historical Fiction, Humor, Family, Contemporary Fiction, American Literature, World War II, Memories, Adapted for Film, Jews, Past, Holocaust, Magical Realism, Search, Debut, Ukraine, Persecution of Jews, Generations, Generational Differences
- First published
- 2002
- Original title
- Everything Is Illuminated
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
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- An astonishing feat - The Times. 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.