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Jonathan Safra Foer's Everything is Illuminated won the Guardian First Book Award in 2002. It tells the story of a young man who goes to the Ukraine in search of the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. He is aided in his quest by a blind old man, a randy guide dog and a very, veryContinue
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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Everything is Illuminated
A 20-year-old Jewish American, Jonathan Safran Foer, goes in search of his roots in the Ukraine and is accompanied by his translator, Alex (also 20), and Alex's grandfather. The result is an absorbing story, hilarious and heartbreaking. Foer sets out ... (read full critics)
bookgroup published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010
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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.Zu said on Jul 21, 2008 about the Hardcover edition | 5 feedbacks
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Vetsera said on May 6, 2009 | 1 feedback
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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)disastrino said on Oct 29, 2008 | Add your feedback
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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)Chiara L'Onironauta said on Dec 16, 2011 | Add your feedback
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- English Books
- Paperback 288 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0141037326
- ISBN-13: 9780141037325
- Publisher: Penguin Books
- Pub date: Sep 01, 2008
- Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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Guile by the mile
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer 276pp, Hamish Hamilton, £14.99 Perhaps because they saw Bambi at an impressionable age, those in the generation of American artists born since the late 1960s are marked by a terror of sentimentality. ... (read full critics)