Everything Is Illuminated
by Jonathan Safran Foer, Hans-Jacob Nilssonliterary work· published 2002
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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..
Adaptations (1)
Everything Is Illuminated was adapted into a 2005 film.
Everything Is Illuminated2005 · film · 106 min · dir. Liev Schreiber · IMDb ↗A young Jewish American man endeavors—with the help of eccentric, distant relatives—to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II—in a Ukrainian village which was ultimately razed by the Nazis.
