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Foer, Jonathan Safran (, 1977-)

Everything is illuminated : a novel / Jonathan Safran Foer. - First Mariner Books edition. - Boston : Mariner Books , 2015, c2003 - 276 p. ; 21 cm.

With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man, also named Jonathan Safran Foer, sets out to find the woman who may or may not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war; an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior; and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape and into an unexpected past. By turns comic and tragic, but always passionate, wildly inventive, and touched with an indelible humanity, this debut novel is a powerful, deeply felt story of searching: for the past, family, and truth.


English.

ISBN: 9780544484009

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Americans---Ukraine----Fiction
World War, 1939-1945---Ukraine----Fiction.
Jewish families---Fiction
Grandfathers---Fiction
Novelists----Fiction
Young men----Fiction

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Ukraine ----Fiction

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Humorous fiction
Domestic fiction
Bildungsromans

LC Class. No.: PS3606.O38 / E84 2015

Dewey Class. No.: FIC FOE