PublishedPenguin, June 2003 |
ISBN9780141008257 |
FormatSoftcover, 288 pages |
Dimensions19.7cm × 12.8cm × 1.8cm |
Everything Is Illuminated was winner of the Guardian Book of the Year and won the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction 2002.
"An astonishing feat" 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.
