What they find turns all their worlds upside down. Everything Is Illuminated is Jonathan Safran Foers bestselling novel of a search for truthThe inspiration for the Liev Schreiber film, starring Elijah. What they are looking for seems elusive - a truth hidden behind veils of time, language and the horrors of war. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (Goodreads Author) 3.89 Rating details 172,713 ratings 8,155 reviews With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man - also named Jonathan Safran Foer - sets out to find the woman who may or may not have 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. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis. 'It seems hard to believe that such a young writer can have such a deep understanding of both comedy and tragedy' Erica Wagner, The TimesĪ young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. In Everything Is Illuminated, a young American with the same name as the author travels to the Ukraine, carrying a photograph of the woman believed in the legends of the Safran Foer family to. 'A first novel of startling originality' Jay McInerney, Observer 'One of the most impressive novel debuts of recent years' Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement Jonathan Safran Foers debut-a funny, eply felt novel about the dangers of confronting the past and the redemption. An astonishing feat of writing' The Times 'Gripping, hilariously funny and deeply serious. ADAPTED INTO A FEATURE FILM WITH ELIJAH WOODįrom the bestselling author of Here I Am, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and We are the Weather - a hilarious, life-affirming and utterly original novel about the search for truth

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