![]() But all of my many friends dub me Alex, because that is a more flaccid-to-utter version of my legal name. Which is always the best advice.įinally, to those who read earlier drafts of this: thank you.įOR MY FAMILY An Overture to the Commencement of a Very Rigid Journey ( Atyab lee itha entee toukleha.)Īnd it is my pleasure, and honor, to think of the wonderful people at Houghton Mifflin as family-Eric Chinski, in particular, whose advice, in literature and life, seems always to boil down to: feel more. She inspires me not only to write more ambitiously, but to smile more widely, and to have a fuller, better heart. AcknowledgmentsĪt least once every day since I met her, I have felt blessed to know Nicole Aragi. Names, characters, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, except in the case of historical figures and events, which are used fictitiously, and, of course, the case of JSF himself. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.Ī portion of this book previously appeared in The New Yorker. Read, you can feel the life beating.” ?-? Philadelphia Inquirer Read moreįor information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to or to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 3 Park Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, New York 10016.īook design and drawing by Anne Chalmers. Foer can place his reader’s hand on the heart of human experience, the transcendent beauty of human connections. “A rambunctious tour de force of inventive and intelligent storytelling. ![]() ![]() ![]() Read it, and you'll feel altered, chastened?-?seared in the fire of something new.” ?-? Washington Post “Imagine a novel as verbally cunning as A Clockwork Orange, as harrowing as The Painted Bird, as exuberant and twee as Candide, and you have Everything Is Illuminated. As his search moves back in time, the fantastical history moves forward, until reality collides with fiction in a heart-stopping scene of extraordinary power. With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man?-?also named Jonathan Safran Foer?-?sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis.Īccompanied 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.Īs their adventure unfolds, Jonathan imagines the history of his grandfather’s village, conjuring a magical fable of startling symmetries that unite generations across time. Jonathan Safran Foer's debut?-?"a funny, eply felt novel about the dangers of confronting the past and the redemption that comes with laughing at it, even when that seems all but impossible." ( Time) ![]()
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