Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer - ISBN: 9780241978894
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Lost in Ukraine, a quest unearths truth, language, and war’s horrors.

Everything is Illuminated

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  • Paperback

    288 pages

  • Release Date

    1 October 2016

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Summary

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 D…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241978894
ISBN-10:0241978890
Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:1 October 2016
Weight:161g
Dimensions:182mm x 111mm x 18mm
Series:Penguin Essentials
About The Author

Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Eating Animals and Here I Am. He has also edited a new modern edition of the sacred Jewish Haggadah. Everything Is Illuminated won several literary prizes, including the National Jewish Book Award and the Guardian First Book Award. He edited the anthology A Convergence of Birds- Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell, and his stories have been published in the Paris Review, Conjunctions and the New Yorker. Jonathan Safran Foer teaches Creative Writing at New York University.

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