Everything Is Illuminated
About this book
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, however, he is aided in his quest by Alex, a translator with an uncanny ability to mangle English into 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..
Subjects
- americans
- amerikaner
- authors, fiction
- belletristische darstellung
- bildungsromans
- domestic fiction
- familie
- fiction
- fiction, coming of age
- fiction, family life
- fiction, historical
- fiction, humorous
- fiction, humorous, general
- fiction, jewish
- grandfathers
- grandparents, fiction
- history
- holocaust survivors
- humorous stories
- jewish families
- jewish fiction
- jews, fiction
- juden
- judenvernichtung
- judenvernichtung <motiv>
- literature
- literature and fiction (general)
- littérature américaine
- luftangriff
- novelists
- reise
- roman
- roman américain
- stetl
- traductions françaises
- ukraine, fiction
- vergangenheitsbewa ltigung
- vergangenheitsbewältigung
- world war, 1939-1945
- world war (1939-1945) fast (ocolc)fst01180924
- world war, 1939-1945, fiction
- young men