num_pages: 11
description: In this fantastical debut, a college student sets out to find Augustine, a woman who might or might not be a link to the grandfather he never knew--the woman who, he has been told, saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Unabridged.
language: English
title: Everything Is Illuminated
titlecomplete: Everything Is Illuminated
characters: Alexander Perchov, Jonathan Safran Foer, Lista, The Gypsy Girl, Brod, Grandfather (Everything Is Illuminated), The Kolker, Safran, Yankel D
genres: Fiction, Historical, Magical Realism, Jewish, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Holocaust, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 177848
places: Trochenbrod, Ukraine
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: Recorded Books