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, however, he is aided in his quest by Alex, a translator with an uncanny ability to mangle English into 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 …
Everything Is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer: Everything Is Illuminated (2002, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers)
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, however, he is aided in his quest by Alex, a translator with an uncanny ability to mangle English into 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..
lingua English
Pubblicato il 2002 da Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers.
Argomenti
- Fiction, coming of age
- Ukraine, fiction
- World war, 1939-1945, fiction
- Authors, fiction
- Grandparents, fiction
- Fiction, humorous, general
- Fiction, family life
- Fiction, jewish
- Jews, fiction
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