Jonathan Safran Foer 
Everything is Illuminated 

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
 »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 Mc Inerney, 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…