Imagine a novel as verbally cunning as A Clockwork Orange , as harrowing as The Painted Bird , as exuberant and twee as Candide , and you have Everything Is Illuminated . -- Philadelphia Inquirer.
Read, you can feel the life beating.
Foer can place his reader\'s hand on the heart of human experience, the transcendent beauty of human connections. . .
A rambunctious tour de force of inventive and intelligent storytelling .
As his search moves back in time, the fantastical history moves forward, until reality collides with fiction in a heart-stopping scene of extraordinary power.
As their adventure unfolds, Jonathan imagines the history of his grandfather\'s village, conjuring a magical fable of startling symmetries that unite generations across time.
Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war, an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior, and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape and into an unexpected past. -- Washington Post With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man -- also named Jonathan Safran Foer -- sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis.
Read it, and you\'ll feel altered, chastened -- seared in the fire of something new. . .
Imagine a novel as verbally cunning as A Clockwork Orange , as harrowing as The Painted Bird , as exuberant and twee as Candide , and you have Everything Is Illuminated
