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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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- Publicado en
- 2016
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- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Jonathan Safran Foer
- Editorial
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publicado en
- 2016
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 288
- ISBN10
- 0241978890
- ISBN13
- 9780241978894
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Ficción, Tema histórico, Novelas históricas, Humor, Familia, Ficción contemporánea, Literatura americana, Segunda Guerra Mundial, Memorias, Adaptada al cine, Judíos, Pasado, Holocausto, Realismo mágico, Búsqueda, Debut, Ucrania, Persecución de Judíos, Generaciones y diferencias generacionales
- Primera publicación
- 2002
- Título original
- Everything Is Illuminated
- Calificación
- 3,9 de 5
- Descripción
- 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 . . .