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"Everything is Illuminated", Jonathan Safran Foer

May 27th, 2009 · No Comments · American, Fiction, History

Synopsis: Eponymous Jewish American author/protagonist travels to the Ukraine in search of the woman who saved his grandfather’s life during the Holocaust. The Journey is aided by a ‘premium’ local translator/narrator Alex, his blind grandfather and their ’seeing eye bitch’, Sammy Davis Jnr, Jnr.
My Take: Truly a bizarre book.
Half mythical/surrealist history of the real life [...]

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