num_pages: 276
description: 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, however, 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...
language: English
title: Everything Is Illuminated
titlecomplete: Everything Is Illuminated
characters: Lista, Yankel D, The Gypsy Girl, The Kolker, Brod, Alexander Perchov, Grandfather (Everything Is Illuminated), Safran, Jonathan Safran Foer
genres: Jewish, Historical Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Fiction, Holocaust, Contemporary, Magical Realism
ratings_count: 177837
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: Penguin Books