Everything is Illuminated by Johnathan Safran Foer

Author: Johnathan Safran Foer Genre:  Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Magical Realism, Literary Fiction Synopsis: 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... Format: Paperback, 276 Pages Setting: Ukraine Awards: New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award (2003), Guardian First Book Award (2002), PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize (2004), William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for Fiction (2003), Corine Internationaler Buchpreis for Rolf Heyne Buch