English language
Published Nov. 10, 2003 by Turtleback.
Everything Is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer, BookSource Staff: Everything Is Illuminated (2003, Turtleback)
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- 978-0-606-23533-4
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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 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..
Subjects
- Jews, fiction
- Fiction, humorous, general
- Ukraine, fiction
- World war, 1939-1945, fiction
- Authors, fiction
- Grandparents, fiction
- Fiction, coming of age
- Fiction, family life
- Fiction, jewish