Everything Is Illuminated

<strong><em>NEW YORK TIMES</em> BESTSELLER. Jonathan Safran Foer's debut--a funny moving...deeply felt novel about the dangers of confronting the past and the redemption that comes with laughing at it even when that seems all but impossible. (<em>Time</em>)</strong><br/><br/>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. <br/><br/>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 and into an unexpected past. <br/><br/>As their adventure unfolds Jonathan imagines the history of his grandfather's village conjuring a magical fable of startling symmetries that unite generations across time. As his search moves back in time the fantastical history moves forward until reality collides with fiction in a heart-stopping scene of extraordinary power. <br/><br/>Imagine a novel as verbally cunning as <em>A Clockwork Orange</em> as harrowing as <em>The Painted Bird</em> as exuberant and twee as <em>Candide</em> and you have <em>Everything Is Illuminated</em> . . . Read it and you'll feel altered chastened--seared in the fire of something new. -- <em>Washington Post </em><br/><br/>A rambunctious tour de force of inventive and intelligent storytelling . . . Foer can place his reader's hand on the heart of human experience the transcendent beauty of human connections. Read you can feel the life beating. -- <em>Philadelphia Inquirer</em>