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| Original Title: | Everything Is Illuminated |
| ISBN: | 0060529709 (ISBN13: 9780060529703) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Alexander Perchov, Jonathan Safran Foer |
| Setting: | Ukraine Trochenbrod(Ukraine) Odessa(Ukraine) …more Lviv(Ukraine) …less |
| Literary Awards: | New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award (2003), Guardian First Book Award (2002), PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize (2004), William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for Fiction (2003), Corine Internationaler Buchpreis for Rolf Heyne Buchpreis (2003) |
Jonathan Safran Foer
Paperback | Pages: 276 pages Rating: 3.9 | 160665 Users | 7669 Reviews
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| Title | : | Everything Is Illuminated |
| Author | : | Jonathan Safran Foer |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 276 pages |
| Published | : | April 1st 2003 by Harper Perennial (first published April 16th 2002) |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Paranormal. Vampires. Fantasy. Romance |
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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 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.Rating Epithetical Books Everything Is Illuminated
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your review is spot onWhen JSF was a freshman at Princeton he took Intro to Writing with JCO (Joyce Carol Oates). She told him he possessed the most important trait a writer can have: energy. I guess I can see the evidence of that in this, his first novel, published when he was only 25. It was based on real-life research he had done in the Ukraine trying to find the woman in an old family picture who helped is grandfather escape the Nazis. He put a fictionalized wrapper around all this that bundled not only the
One of my best reads of this year so far! Straight into my goodreads favourites!- This novel follows the story of Jonathan, a young man who is visiting Ukraine in the hopes of discovering the woman who saved his Grandfather from the Nazis fifty years before. On arriving in Ukraine Jonathan meets his translator, Alex who will be aiding him with his search. Along with Alex is Alex's Grandfather and his dog, Sammy David Jr, Jr. Their mission takes them around Ukraine and they slowly begin to
Funny In a Tragic WayWhat would the English of a bright Ukrainian who had learnt it largely from local pop culture and a thesaurus sound like? Hilarious actually. Especially in the telling of a tale which has both been told so many times, and can never be told adequately: the Holocaust. There are two protagonists, the author, a young Jewish man off to find his roots in a now famous but obliterated shtetl near the Polish/Ukrainian border; and a young, ambitious lad from a disfunctional family in
One of the nice things about being stoned is the added dimension of humor or profundity that otherwise inconsequential things can assume in our impression of them. I remember once having my mind blown at the idea of language, and how any two unrelated people, having been raised in the same country and while having no connection at all to each other, or there being any crossover among those who have taught or influenced them, can meet each other one day and have a mutually intelligible
A twenty-year old American Jew, whose name just happens to be Jonathan Safran Soer, travels to Ukraine in an effort to locate the site of the village of Trachimbrod that was razed by the Nazis in 1942. In doing so, the invaders executed practically all of the villages Jewish inhabitants. He is also on a quest to find a woman named Augustine whom he believes helped his grandfather to escape the Nazis. To assist him, he hires the services of the Heritage Touring Company. Since the owners son,
Everything Is Illuminated is one of the most focused books Ive read. It doesnt meander inappropriately, and theres almost no excess. Seriously, this books got less fat than Christian Bale in The Machinist. It's either in full-on comedy mode, full-on fanciful mode, full-on drama mode, or some well-balanced combination of the three. Foer spent years editing the novel from his initial college thesis draft, and it showsin a good way. There's no lag, and given some of the other books I was reading at
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