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Everything is Illuminated

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Publishing Details

Full Title:

Everything is Illuminated

Contributors:
ISBN:

9780141008257

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publication Date:

29th September 2003

UK Publication Date:

5th June 2003

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Dewey:

813.6

Prizes:

Winner of Guardian First Book Award 2002

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

288

Dimensions:

Width 128mm, Height 197mm, Spine 18mm

Weight:

204g

Description

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.

Reviews

'An astonishing feat' The Times

Author Bio

Jonathan Safran Foer was born in 1977 in Washington, D.C. He is the author of Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and Eating Animals. 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. Foer teaches Creative Writing at New York University, and his forthcoming book, Here I Am, will be published in Autumn 2016 by Hamish Hamilton.

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