Everything Is Illuminated

By Jonathan Safran Foer

Subjects: World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924, Fiction, jewish, Fiction, coming of age, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Luftangriff, Humorous stories, Domestic fiction, Literature, Literature and fiction (general), Littérature américaine, Reise, Vergangenheitsbewältigung, Fiction, historical, Jews, fiction, Juden, Familie, World War, 1939-1945, Judenvernichtung, Grandfathers, Authors, fiction, Fiction, family life, Ukraine, fiction, Fiction, humorous, general, Traductions françaises, Roman américain, Roman, Fiction, Novelists, Stetl, Grandparents, fiction, Fiction, humorous, Belletristische Darstellung, Americans, History, Vergangenheitsbewa ltigung, Jewish families, Young men, Amerikaner

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, 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..