Everything is Illuminated: Jonathan Foer

The internationally bestselling novel.
Adapted into a feature film with elijah wood.
From the bestselling author of Here I Am, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and We are the Weather - a hilarious, life-affirming and utterly original novel about the search for truth - now available as a pocket-sized Penguin Essential
`Gripping, hilariously funny and deeply serious. An astonishing feat of writing` The Times
`One of the most impressive novel debuts of recent years` Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement
`A first novel of startling originality` Jay McInerney, Observer
`It seems hard to believe that such a young writer can have such a deep understanding of both comedy and tragedy` Erica Wagner, The Times
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, 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...