num_pages: 276
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.
language: English
title: Everything is Illuminated
titlecomplete: Everything is Illuminated
characters: Yankel D, Brod, Alexander Perchov, The Kolker, Jonathan Safran Foer, Grandfather (Everything Is Illuminated), The Gypsy Girl, Safran, Lista
genres: Magical Realism, Historical, Jewish, Novels, Holocaust, Historical Fiction, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 177852
places: Ukraine, Trochenbrod
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Guardian First Book Award, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: William Saroyan International Prize for Writing
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Corine Internationaler Buchpreis
category: Rolf Heyne Buchpreis
publisher: Harper Perennial