What they find turns all their worlds upside down. What they are looking for seems elusive - a truth hidden behind veils of time, language and the horrors of war. 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. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis. 'It seems hard to believe that such a young writer can have such a deep understanding of both comedy and tragedy' Erica Wagner, The TimesĪ young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. 'A first novel of startling originality' Jay McInerney, Observer 'One of the most impressive novel debuts of recent years' Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement
An astonishing feat of writing' The Times 'Gripping, hilariously funny and deeply serious. Jonathan Safran Foer, the novels other hero, is such a Jewan American college student looking for the Ukrainian woman who hid his grandfather from the Nazis. ADAPTED INTO A FEATURE FILM WITH ELIJAH WOODįrom the bestselling author of Here I Am, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and We are the Weather - a hilarious, life-affirming and utterly original novel about the search for truth Everything Is Illuminated PG-13 2005, Comedy/Drama, 1h 46m 66 Tomatometer 119 Reviews 89 Audience Score 50,000+ Ratings What to know Critics Consensus Although it excises much from its famously.
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