"A book that illuminates so much with such odd and original beauty." - Daniel Mendelsohn, New York New York Magazine The novel was named Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times and was the winner of numerous awards, including the Guardian First Book Prize, the National Jewish Book Award, and the New York Public Library Young Lions Prize. 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.
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.
Listed in the Other category on Art In Fiction, Everything is Illuminated (2015) by Jonathan Safran Foer brings together past and present and uses plays and dreams to tell some of the intertwining stories.
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