Everything is Illuminated

Beschreibung

THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING NOVEL<BR><BR>ADAPTED INTO A FEATURE FILM WITH ELIJAH WOOD<BR><BR>From the bestselling author of Here I Am, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and We are the Weather - 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' The Times<BR><BR>'One of the most impressive novel debuts of recent years' Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement<BR><BR>'A first novel of startling originality' Jay McInerney, Observer<BR><BR>'It seems hard to believe that such a young writer can have such a deep understanding of both comedy and tragedy' Erica Wagner, The Times<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...

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