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Everything Is Illuminated
by Jonathan Safran Foer

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Awards

2002 Guardian First Book Award
A New York Times Notable Book for 2002
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Powells.com Staff Pick

This novel is one of the best I've ever read. Intriguing and fresh, it combines great comedy with great tragedy; Foer intertwines realistic storytelling with a stream-of-consciousness style to yield unpredictable gems. Everything Is Illuminated is both hilarious and deeply moving.
Recommended by Olesya

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Publisher Comments:

Exuberant and wise, hysterically funny and deeply moving, Everything Is Illuminated is an astonishing debut novel. In the summer after his junior year of college, a writer — also named Jonathan Safran Foer — journeys to the farmlands of eastern Europe. Armed with only a yellowing photograph, he sets out to find Augustine, the woman who might or might not be a link to the grandfather he never knew — the woman who, he has been told, saved his grandfather from the Nazis.

Guided by the unforgettable Alex, his young Ukrainian translator, who writes in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic search across a devastated landscape and back into an unexpected past. Braided into this story is the novel Jonathan is writing, a magical fable of his grandfather?s village in Ukraine, a tapestry of startling symmetries that unite generations across time. In a counterpoint of voices blending high comedy and deep tragedy, the search moves back in time, the fantastical history moves forward, and they meet in a heart-stopping scene of extraordinary power.

Passionate, wildly inventive, and marked by an indelible humanity, Everything Is Illuminated mines the black holes of history and is ultimately a story about searching: for people and places that no longer exist, for the hidden truths that haunt every family, and for the delicate but necessary tales that link past and future.

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"A zestfully imagined novel of wonders both magical and mundane....He will win your admiration, and he will break your heart." Joyce Carol Oates, author of We Were the Mulvaneys

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"Extraordinarily gifted...this young man also happens to possess something approaching wisdom. Don't just check him out. Read him." Russell Banks, author of The Sweet Hereafter

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"Foer has written a glittering first novel...with great humor, sympathy, charm and daring. Every page is illuminated." Jeffrey Eugenides, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex

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"Generations become united across time in this fanciful tale, as Foer, the author, gives the reader a contemporary version of 19th-century Jewish drama — one that blends laughter and tears." Library Journal

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"Comedy and pathos are braided together with extraordinary skill in a haunting debut." Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)

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"One of the most impressive first novels in a long time....[T]his book is, as its name implies, brilliant." Adrienne Miller, Esquire
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About the Author

Jonathan Safran Foer was born in 1977 in Washington, D.C. He is the editor of the anthology A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell, a Book Sense 76 selection and a Boston Globe bestseller. His stories have been published in the Paris Review and Conjunctions. Jonathan traveled to the Ukraine four years ago to research his grandfather?s life. This is his first novel, parts of which appeared in The New Yorker.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780618173877
Author:
Foer, Jonathan Safran
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Company
Location:
Boston
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
World war, 1939-1945
Subject:
Grandfathers
Subject:
Young men
Subject:
Americans
Subject:
Humorous fiction
Subject:
Ukraine
Subject:
Novelists
Subject:
Domestic fiction
Subject:
Jewish families
Subject:
Jewish fiction.
Subject:
World War, 19
Subject:
Bildungsromans
Copyright:
2002
Edition Number:
4th
Edition Description:
HARDCOVER
Series Volume:
no. 710
Publication Date:
April 2002
Binding:
Hardcover
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
288
Dimensions:
9.34x6.34x.99 in. 1.20 lbs.
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