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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
- Idioma
- Publicado en
- 2005
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- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Jonathan Safran Foer
- Editorial
- Penguin Books
- Publicado en
- 2005
- 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
- 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.