Everything is Illuminated (Penguin Celebrations) - Softcover

Safran Foer, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014103517X ISBN 13: 9780141035178

Verlag: Penguin, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

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 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. What they find turns all their worlds upside down …

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Eating Animals and Here I Am. He has also edited a new modern edition of the sacred Jewish Haggadah. Everything Is Illuminated won several literary prizes, including the National Jewish Book Award and the Guardian First Book Award. He edited the anthology A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell, and his stories have been published in the Paris Review, Conjunctions and the New Yorker. Jonathan Safran Foer teaches Creative Writing at New York University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 014103517X
• ISBN 13: 9780141035178
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
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