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Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer Publisher
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man - also named Jonathan Safran
Foer - sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his
grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories
of the war, an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior Junior, and the unforgettable
Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English,
Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape and into
an unexpected past. As their adventure unfolds, Jonathan imagines the history of his grandfather's village, conjuring a magical fable of startling symmetries that unite generations across time. Lit by passion, fear, guilt, memory & hope, the characters in Everything is Illuminated mine the black holes of history as the search moves back in time, the fantastical history moves forward, until reality collides with fiction in a heart-stopping scene of extraordinary power. An arresting blend of high comedy and great tragedy, this is a story about searching for people and places that no longer exist, for the hidden truths that haunt every family, and for the delicate but necessary tales that link past and future. Exuberant and wise, hysterically funny and deeply moving, Everything is Illuminated is an astonishing debut. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Jonathan Safran Foer was born in 1977 in Washington, D.C. He is the editor of the anthology A Convergence of Birds and his stories have been published in the Paris Review and Conjunctions. This is his first novel, parts of which appeared in The New Yorker. He lives in Queens, New York, and is at work on his second novel, which takes place in a museum. |
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