Everything Is Illuminated

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Tragicomic quest for family history and identity.

"Everything Is Illuminated" is a profound journey that intertwines humor with deep emotional resonance. If you're drawn to stories that explore the roots of family and self amidst the backdrop of history, this book is an incredible tapestry to lose yourself in. Foer's imaginative narrative structure and linguistic playfulness make for an unforgettable reading adventure.

  • New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award (2003)
  • Guardian First Book Award (2002)
  • PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize (2004)
  • William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for Fiction (2003)
  • Corine Internationaler Buchpreis for Rolf Heyne Buchpreis (2003)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Everything Is Illuminated

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ISBN: 9780241978894
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date of Publication: 2016-08-04
Format: Paperback
Related Topics: Literature, World War II, War
Goodreads rating: 3.89
(rated by 182218 readers)

Description

Everything Is Illuminated is Jonathan Safran Foer's bestselling novel of a search for truth. 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 . . .
 

Tragicomic quest for family history and identity.

"Everything Is Illuminated" is a profound journey that intertwines humor with deep emotional resonance. If you're drawn to stories that explore the roots of family and self amidst the backdrop of history, this book is an incredible tapestry to lose yourself in. Foer's imaginative narrative structure and linguistic playfulness make for an unforgettable reading adventure.

  • New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award (2003)
  • Guardian First Book Award (2002)
  • PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize (2004)
  • William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for Fiction (2003)
  • Corine Internationaler Buchpreis for Rolf Heyne Buchpreis (2003)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.