by Jonathan Safran Foer · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141008257
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«Everything Is Illuminated» is the literary fiction novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, published by Penguin Books in hardback (288 pages, in English).
A young American travels to Ukraine with an old photograph to find the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. He is accompanied by a local translator who butchers English, an old man who claims to be blind, and an unconventional guide dog. The search for a village destroyed by the Holocaust brings to light truths that change everything.
The work was published in 2003, won the Guardian First Book Award and the National Jewish Book Award. The film adaptation, directed by Liev Schreiber, featured Elijah Wood.
For readers interested in historical memory, Jewish identity and the Holocaust.
Jonathan Safran Foer is an American novelist. He is known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005), Here I Am (2016), and for his non-fiction works Eating Animals (2009) and We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (2019). He teaches creative writing at New York University.
