Everything is Illuminated

Safran, Foer, Jonathan

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This text concerns a young man who travels to the Ukraine to find the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. He is aided in his quest by an old man, a randy dog and a very, very bad translator.

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Publish Date: 04/08/2016

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‘Gripping, hilariously funny and deeply serious. An astonishing feat of writing’ The Times

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It seems hard to believe that such a young writer can have such a deep understanding of both comedy and tragedy’ Erica Wagner, 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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Weight 159 g
Dimensions 181 × 111 × 17 mm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

288

Language

English

Edition

Reprint

Dewey

813.6 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K