3.8
Everything is Illuminated
"An astonishing feat" THE TIMES
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.
FictionHistorical20th CenturyWorld War IIHumorousLiterary
RELEASED2003
PUBLISHERPenguin Books Limited
LENGTH288
LANGUAGEEN
American novelist
3.8
Everything is Illuminated
"An astonishing feat" THE TIMES
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.
FictionHistorical20th CenturyWorld War IIHumorousLiteraryBiographicalComing of Age
RELEASED2003
PUBLISHERPenguin Books Limited
LENGTH288
LANGUAGEEN
American novelist
