Search for truth through mishap & humor.
Everything is Illuminated could be a good read for lovers of historical fiction. This book is a clever blend of humor and tragedy as it explores the remnants of the Holocaust and those left in its wake. Jonathan Safran Foer's storytelling leaves the readers on the edge of their seats while going through Alex's colorful misadventures as he tries translating for the young American, whose grandfather was saved by a woman during the war.
ISBN: 9780141008257
Authors:
Jonathan Safran Foer
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date of Publication: 2003-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Topics:
Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.89
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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, however, 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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