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With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man -- also named Jonathan Safran Foer -- sets out to find the woman who may or may not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. 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. By turns comic and tragic, but always passionate, wildly inventive, and touched with an indelible humanity, this debut novel is a powerful, deeply felt story of for the past, family, and truth.
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Everything is illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
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- Année de publication
- 2005
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- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Jonathan Safran Foer
- Éditeur
- Harper Perennial
- Publié
- 2005
- Format
- souple
- ISBN10
- 0060792175
- ISBN13
- 9780060792176
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Thème historique, Romans historiques, Humour, Famille, Littérature contemporaine, Seconde Guerre mondiale, Littérature américaine, Souvenirs, Adapté au cinéma, Juifs, Passé, Holocauste, Réalisme magique, Enquête, Premier roman, Ukraine, Persécution des Juifs, Générations et différences générationnelles
- Première publication
- 2002
- Titre original
- Everything Is Illuminated
- Évaluation
- 3,9 sur 5
- Description
- With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man -- also named Jonathan Safran Foer -- sets out to find the woman who may or may not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. 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. By turns comic and tragic, but always passionate, wildly inventive, and touched with an indelible humanity, this debut novel is a powerful, deeply felt story of for the past, family, and truth.