Everything Is Illuminated

Resumen del libro

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 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. What they find turns all their worlds upside down...

Biografía del autor

Jonathan Safran Foer es autor de las novelas Todo está iluminado y Tan fuerte, tan cerca. Ha sido galardonado con el Zoetrope: All-Story Fiction Prize, el New York Public Libraryx{0026} x02019;s Young Lions Fiction Award y fue incluido en la lista de los mejores novelistas jóvenes norteamericanos publicada por Granta. Su obra ha sido traducida a treinta y seis idiomas.