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Everything Is Illuminated is Jonathan Safran Foer's bestselling novel of a search for truth,published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. The inspiration for the Liev Schreiber film, starring Elijah Wood 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. What they find turns all their worlds upside down . . .
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Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
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- Jaar van publicatie
- 2016
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- Taal
- Engels
- Auteurs
- Jonathan Safran Foer
- Uitgever
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Jaar van publicatie
- 2016
- Formaat
- Paperback
- Aantal pagina's
- 288
- ISBN10
- 0241978890
- ISBN13
- 9780241978894
- Reeks
- Tags
- Fictie, Historisch thema, Historische romans, Humor, Familie, Hedendaagse literatuur, Amerikaanse Literatuur, Tweede Wereldoorlog, Herinneringen, Verfilmd, Joden, Verleden, Holocaust, Magisch realisme, Zoektocht, Debuut, Oekraïne, Persecutie van Joden, Generaties en generatieverschillen
- Eerste editie
- 2002
- Oorspronkelijke titel
- Everything Is Illuminated
- Beoordeling
- 3,9 van 5
- Aantekening
- Everything Is Illuminated is Jonathan Safran Foer's bestselling novel of a search for truth,published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. The inspiration for the Liev Schreiber film, starring Elijah Wood 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. What they find turns all their worlds upside down . . .