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Everything Is Illuminated is Jonathan Safran Foer's bestselling novel of a search for truth, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. The inspiration for the Liev Schreiber film, starring Elijah Wood 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, 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. 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 . . .

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Everything is Illuminated
• Author: Jonathan Safran Foer
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9780241978894
• ISBN: 9780241978894
• ID: 01005484
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 166 g
• Dimensions: 113 × 180 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. August 2016

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