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Everything Is Illuminated tie-in

A Novel

By Jonathan Safran Foer

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| Paperback | 9780060792176

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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. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war; an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior; and the Continue

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. 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.

By turns comic and tragic, but always passionate, wildly inventive, and touched with an indelible humanity, this debut novel is a powerful, deeply felt story of searching: for the past, family, and truth.

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  • 10 people find this helpful

    Definitely one of the books of my life.
    It spoke to me, linking everything to everything else, inside and outside, with white strings made of words, with words made of feelings, with feelings made of everywaves, linking each nowhere to everywhere inside and outside.

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    Zu said on Jul 21, 2008 about the Hardcover edition | 5 feedbacks

  • 4 people find this helpful

    as Alex would put it: "very premium". Jonathan, his translator Alex, Alex's grandfather (who claims he is blind but is the driver) and his allegedly disturbed seeing-eye bitch undertake an amazing journey through Ukraine to find the village of Trachimbrod.
    chasing Augustine, the past meets the ... (continue)

    as Alex would put it: "very premium". Jonathan, his translator Alex, Alex's grandfather (who claims he is blind but is the driver) and his allegedly disturbed seeing-eye bitch undertake an amazing journey through Ukraine to find the village of Trachimbrod.
    chasing Augustine, the past meets the present and modern English meets Alex. nothing will ever be the same...and everything is illuminated.
    unputdownable.

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    disastrino said on Oct 29, 2008 | Add your feedback

  • 3 people find this helpful

    What a beautiful and unusual book this is!
    Jonathan Safran Foer is a very talented writer, and although the first pages of the novel can seem a bit confusing, once you get into the story you feel completely absorbed by the plot and the characters...

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    Miss Piggott said on Jul 26, 2007 | Add your feedback

  • 2 people find this helpful

    Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was.

    Memory: It is an ugly thing.
    One can't help digging for one's past, but memories hurt and uncover oneself more than one can ever imagine.
    The past is the present is the future is the past... That's what this book is made of ... (continue)

    Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was.

    Memory: It is an ugly thing.
    One can't help digging for one's past, but memories hurt and uncover oneself more than one can ever imagine.
    The past is the present is the future is the past... That's what this book is made of.

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    Chiara L'Onironauta said on Dec 16, 2011 | Add your feedback

  • Very evocative

    I guess it's one of those book you love or hate because in the end it doesn't boil down to anything and it tells it all.

    I loved it.

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    fran_ces said on Aug 26, 2011 | Add your feedback

  • Alex's story is a bit interesting. But the letters and the other plots are boring. I can't help abandoning the book afte 30+ pages.

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    Waleswong said on Apr 11, 2011 | Add your feedback

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