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Everything is Illuminated
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  • Published: 1 October 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241978894
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $28.00

Everything is Illuminated

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EBook
29 Sept 2003
Audiobook
28 Apr 2016
Paperback
1 Oct 2016
Paperback
29 Sept 2003
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Jonathan Safran Foer's bestselling debut novel, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time

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.
  • Published: 1 October 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241978894
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $28.00
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About the author

Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer was born in 1977. He is the editor of the anthology A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell, and his stories have been published in the Paris Review, Conjunctions and the New Yorker. Everything Is Illuminated, his first novel, won several literary prizes, including the National Jewish Book Award and the Guardian First Book Award in 2002.
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