"Everything Is Illuminated" is Jonathan Safran Foer\'s bestselling novel of a search for truth.
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.
He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis.
A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph.
It is the inspiration for the Liev Schreiber film, starring Elijah Wood. "Everything Is Illuminated" is Jonathan Safran Foer\'s bestselling novel of a search for truth