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Everything is Illuminated
'An astonishing feat of writing: hilariously funny and deeply serious, a gripping narrative. Extraordinary'
The Times
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 bizarre 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 …
Winner of the Guardian Book of the Year and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction 2002.
The Times
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 bizarre 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 …
Winner of the Guardian Book of the Year and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction 2002.
- Forfatter
- Jonathan Safran Foer
- ISBN
- 9780141008257
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Vekt
- 206 gram
- Utgivelsesdato
- 5.6.2003
- Forlag
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Antall sider
- 288
