Everything is Illuminated

<p><b>THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING NOVEL<br><br>ADAPTED INTO A FEATURE FILM WITH ELIJAH WOOD<br><br>From the bestselling author of <i>Here I Am, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close </i>and <i>We are the Weather - </i>a hilarious, life-affirming and utterly original novel about the search for truth - now available as a pocket-sized Penguin Essential<br><br>'Gripping, hilariously funny and deeply serious. An astonishing feat of writing' <i>The Times</i><br><br>'One of the most impressive novel debuts of recent years' Joyce Carol Oates, <i>Times Literary Supplement</i><br><br>'A first novel of startling originality' Jay McInerney,<i> Observer</i><br><br><i>'</i>It seems hard to believe that such a young writer can have such a deep understanding of both comedy and tragedy' Erica Wagner,<i> The Times</i></b><br><br>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. <br><br>What they find turns all their worlds upside down...</p> <p><b>THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING NOVEL<br><br>ADAPTED INTO A FEATURE FILM WITH ELIJAH WOOD<br><br>From the bestselling author of <i>Here I Am, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close </i>and <i>We are the Weather - </i>a hilarious, life-affirming and utterly original novel about the search for truth - now available as a pocket-sized Penguin Essential<br><br>'Gripping, hilariously funny and deeply serious. An astonishing feat of writing' <i>The Times</i><br><br>'One of the most impressive novel debuts of recent years' Joyce Carol Oates, <i>Times Literary Supplement</i><br><br>'A first novel of startling originality' Jay McInerney,<i> Observer</i><br><br><i>'</i>It seems hard to believe that such a young writer can have such a deep understanding of both comedy and tragedy' Erica Wagner,<i> The Times</i></b><br><br>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. <br><br>What they find turns all their worlds upside down...</p>