Everything is Illuminated
by Jonathan Safran Foer
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Everything is Illuminated won the Guardian First Book Award in 2002. It tells the story of a young man who goes to 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, very bad translator.
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Humorous stories, Grandfathers, Novelists, Fiction, Jewish families, Literature, Americans, World War, 1939-1945, Young men, Domestic fiction, History, Luftangriff, Vergangenheitsbewältigung, Reise, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924, Amerikaner, Familie, Juden, Stetl, Fiction, coming of age, Fiction, humorous, Ukraine, fiction, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Authors, fiction, Grandparents, fiction, Fiction, family life, Fiction, jewish, Jews, fiction, Judenvernichtung, Roman, Fiction, humorous, general, Belletristische Darstellung, Vergangenheitsbewa ltigung, Fiction, historical, Literature and fiction (general), Littérature américaine, Traductions françaises, Roman américainPlaces
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Everything is illuminated: a novel
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Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel
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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 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..
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