Everything is Illuminated

THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING NOVEL n n ADAPTED INTO A FEATURE FILM WITH ELIJAH WOOD n n 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 n n 'Gripping, hilariously funny and deeply serious. An astonishing feat of writing' The Times n n 'One of the most impressive novel debuts of recent years' Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement n n 'A first novel of startling originality' Jay McInerney, Observer n n '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 n n 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. n n What they find turns all their worlds upside down... n