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Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything Is Illuminated: Includes an Exclusive Interview With the Author

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Hilarious, energetic, and profoundly touching, a debut novel follows a young writer as he travels to the farmlands of eastern Europe, where he embarks on a quest to find Augustine, the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis, and, guided by his young Ukrainian translator, he discovers an unexpected past that will resonate far into the future. Excerpt in The New Yorker.
 
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"the beginning of the world often comes"

Date of Review:  Jun 17, 2005
The Bottom Line: A funny, quirky, and moving collection of stories that - o happy surprise - lives up at last to its claim to be one whole novel.
Review: In some ways, I found Jonathan Safran Foer s debut novel Everything is Illuminated very easy to read, and I ll choose excerpts in a way that should let you decide if you agree. It was easy to read because it generally moves fast. It was easy to read...
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  5.0

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The fine line between ambition and...
 

Nothing is Illuminated

Date of Review:  Oct 28, 2004
The Bottom Line: Could have been so much less and succeeded so much more.
Review: Everything is Illuminated tries really, really hard to do the "right" (read: marketable) things. It's got an edgy little structure to it that's supposed to keep the reader a little unsettled and therefore interested. Its laudable subject matter is...
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Everything is Illuminated

Date of Review:  Aug 31, 2005
The Bottom Line: Everything is Illuminated goes from quirky culture clash story to thoughtful reminder of the aftermath of WWII for generations to come.
Review: In 1997, author Jonathan Safran Foer decided to go on a trip to Prague to embark on a search for his roots. A badly planned 3-day trip to the Ukraine for clues to his Jewish ancestry eventually turned into the novel Everything is Illuminated...
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Sometimes a bit too quirky and a little...
 
 
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Authors Jonathan Safran Foer
Narrator Scott Shina
Fiction Genre Family & Relationships • History
Fiction Subgenre Unknown

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  Kirkus: "Comedy and pathos are braided together with extraordinary skill in a haunting debut....Beauty from ashes."

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  Format: Paperback
Publisher: Harpercollins (March 01, 2003)
Measurements: 8"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 0.75"(d), 0.55 lbs.
ISBN: 9780060529703

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  My legal name is Alexander Perchov. But all of my many friends dub me Alex, because that is a more flaccid-to-utter version of my legal name.
 
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