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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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- Année de publication
- 2016
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- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Jonathan Safran Foer
- Éditeur
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publié
- 2016
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN10
- 0241978890
- ISBN13
- 9780241978894
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Thème historique, Romans historiques, Humour, Littérature contemporaine, Famille, Seconde Guerre mondiale, Littérature américaine, Adapté au cinéma, Souvenirs, Juifs, Passé, Holocauste, Réalisme magique, Enquête, Ukraine, Premier roman, Persécution des Juifs, Générations et différences générationnelles
- Première publication
- 2002
- Titre original
- Everything Is Illuminated
- Évaluation
- 3,9 sur 5
- Description
- 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 . . .