Naomi Watts and starred Elijah Wood and that guy from the Gypsy punk rock band Gogol Bordello.īut Foer didn't rest on his laurels. And then the book was made into a film directed by Liev Schreiber a.k.a. (What are you waiting for?) It was a New York Times Bestseller, an Best Book pick it won the National Jewish Book Award for fiction in 2001 and The Guardian awarded it their First Book Award in 2002. Jonathan Safran Foer was only twenty-five when Everything is Illuminated was published.
He's assisted by Alex, a Ukrainian translator with a loose grasp on the English language Alex's grandfather and their frisky, farting dog, Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior.Īs Alex might say, this is a very premium tale. Whether you've got your dead aunt strapped to the roof of the car, or you're pushing a VW bus across the country to get to a beauty pageant, or you're stuck in the backseat with a frisky, farting dog trying to find your grandfather's village which was wiped off the map during World War II, well, you're bound to get some good pictures for your Facebook wall out of it.Įverything is Illuminatedtells the story of a Jewish vegetarian writer named Jonathan Safran Foer (how did the author of this book, the Jewish vegetarian writer Jonathan Safran Foer, cook up that character?), who is on a journey to find his grandfather's hometown and the woman who saved him during World War II. You can always find a reason for a road trip.
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