Everything Is Illuminated

Jonathan Safran Foer

An astonishing feat The Times . 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 behin