Everything Is Illuminated

Description:

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..

subjects: Humorous stories,  Grandfathers,  Novelists,  Fiction,  Jewish families,  Literature,  Americans,  World War, 1939-1945,  Young men,  Domestic fiction,  History,  Luftangriff,  Vergangenheitsbewältigung,  Reise,  World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924,  Amerikaner,  Familie,  Juden,  Stetl,  Fiction, coming of age,  Fiction, humorous,  Ukraine, fiction,  World war, 1939-1945, fiction,  Authors, fiction,  Grandparents, fiction,  Fiction, family life,  Fiction, jewish,  Jews, fiction,  Judenvernichtung,  Roman,  Fiction, humorous, general,  Belletristische Darstellung,  Vergangenheitsbewa ltigung,  Fiction, historical,  Literature and fiction (general),  Littérature américaine,  Traductions françaises,  Roman américain,  Judenvernichtung <Motiv>,  Bildungsromans,  Jewish fiction

Places: Ukraine,  Amerikaner,  Juden

Times: German occupation 1941-1944,  Geschichte 1997,  Geschichte 1942,  Geschichte 1791-1942