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| Original Title: | Everything Is Illuminated |
| ISBN: | 0060529709 (ISBN13: 9780060529703) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Alexander Perchov, Jonathan Safran Foer |
| Setting: | Ukraine Trochenbrod(Ukraine) Odessa(Ukraine) …more Lviv(Ukraine) …less |
| Literary Awards: | New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award (2003), Guardian First Book Award (2002), PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize (2004), William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for Fiction (2003), Corine Internationaler Buchpreis for Rolf Heyne Buchpreis (2003) |
Jonathan Safran Foer
Paperback | Pages: 276 pages Rating: 3.9 | 160665 Users | 7669 Reviews
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With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man -- also named Jonathan Safran Foer -- sets out to find the woman who may or may not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war; an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior; and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape and into an unexpected past.
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| Title | : | Everything Is Illuminated |
| Author | : | Jonathan Safran Foer |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 276 pages |
| Published | : | April 1st 2003 by Harper Perennial (first published April 16th 2002) |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Paranormal. Vampires. Fantasy. Romance |
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Ratings: 3.9 From 160665 Users | 7669 ReviewsRate Appertaining To Books Everything Is Illuminated
My first Foer.Not sure if he's a genius or overrated or both. There are literary devices in here that made me roll my eyes on multiple occasions, for instance: 1) inserting the author, Jonathan Safran Foer, into the novel (and not like Alfred Hitchcock and Stan Lee have cameos in their movies; Jonathan is present in this book), 2) abandoning all grammar and sentence structure to stress that something horrifying and tragic is happening ( ...or that Foer is ready to end his novel), and 3) relyingSorry but I didn't care for this at all. If Mr. Nobody wrote a book about himself as the main character, and used some uninventive malapropisms to make discussions with a foreigner amusing, the book would be tossed. But wait, Foer went to Yale. Unfortunately for me the quality of his writing shows me that nepotism will always beat out merit these days. Sorry to be harsh, but really, I found the writing to be quite poor.
I'm not sure how I feel about this, one of the most overhyped novels of the early noughties. On the one hand, it undeniably contains flashes of genius. It is original, inventive and ambitious, which is great. On the other hand, it has a few aspects which annoyed me, and that, I think, is less good.In a nutshell, Everything Is Illuminated is an amalgam of three interconnected stories. The first is that of a young Jewish American (bearing the same name as the author) who visits the Ukraine in an
This gets an extra star for a truly funny gag that carries the book for the first fifty or sixty pages. That's surprising and impressive mileage for a simple bit (the narrator, a non-native English speaker, relies heavily on a thesaurus, so that "a hard journey" is "a rigid journey"), but after it wears off -- grinding agony. Foer wants to be Gabriel Garcia Marquez, but his magic is insipid and his realism is lazily dishonest. He consistently goes for an easy lie over a more complex truth. For
The picaresque interchange between youths is like a more irreverent' albeit magic-natural take on Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. The imperfect prisms, the barriers of language of history and the imagination all these tools of literary alchemy are proudly on display. It attempts to hide the real theme of pathos inherent in all immigrant stories, & that the reader desires desperately to unearth it like nothing else. (Ingeniously, in EiI, a potato falling to the ground becomes a thing of singular
I watched the movie of this first and loved it. It was basically a movie about cultural misunderstanding and how people can be cruel without really knowing it. It is a story about what happens when you put an American and someone born out of the Soviet era in the same room and try to make them explain to one another why the other one thinks the way they do. In a word: hilarious.After reading the book, I still like the movie, but it seems obvious to me that the filmmakers missed the point
Gimmicks as substance.
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