Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
Everyone is talking about Jonathan Safran Foer’s latest novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (The FiFi Report #83) but you should start with his first book, Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel. Why? Because the movie is coming out in September with Elijah Wood and isn’t it always best to read the book before the movie? This book has won all sorts of awards and The Times says it’s ‘a work of Genius’. “With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man - also named Jonathan Safran Foer - sets out to find the woman who might or might 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. An arresting blend of high comedy and great tragedy, it is exuberant and wise, hysterically funny and deeply moving, an astonishing debut” .
$22 from major booksellers Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (April 16, 2002)
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