Everything is Illuminated
Author: Foer, Jonathan Safran
ISBN: 9780241978894
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year First Published: 2016
Pages: 288
Dimensions: 180mm x 113mm x 18mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
Jonathan Safran Foer's bestselling debut novel, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time
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, 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.
ISBN: 9780241978894
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year First Published: 2016
Pages: 288
Dimensions: 180mm x 113mm x 18mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
Jonathan Safran Foer's bestselling debut novel, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time
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, 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.
