Everything Is Illuminated tie-in: A Novel

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Harper Collins, Aug 23, 2005 - Fiction - 288 pages

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.

 

Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
23
Section 3
27
Section 4
52
Section 5
56
Section 6
100
Section 7
105
Section 8
142
Section 10
178
Section 11
181
Section 12
214
Section 13
219
Section 14
240
Section 15
243
Section 16
275
Copyright

Section 9
146

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About the author (2005)

Jonathan Safran Foer was born in 1977. He is the editor of A Convergence of Birds, and his stories have been published in The Paris Review and The New Yorker. This is his first novel, which appeared on Best Books of 2002 lists internationally, won several literary prizes, including the National Jewish Book Award and The Guardian First Book Award, and has been published in twenty-four countries.

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