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  • Published: 1 September 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141037325
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $15.99

Everything is Illuminated



Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated won the Guardian First Book Award in 2002. It tells the story of a young man who goes to the Ukraine in search of the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. He is aided in his quest by a blind old man, a randy guide dog and a very, very bad translator. It is funny, moving and gripping and we guarantee you won't have read anything quite like it before.

  • Published: 1 September 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141037325
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $15.99

About the author

Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer was born in 1977. He is the editor of the anthology A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell, and his stories have been published in the Paris Review, Conjunctions and the New Yorker. Everything Is Illuminated, his first novel, won several literary prizes, including the National Jewish Book Award and the Guardian First Book Award in 2002.

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