Everything Is Illuminated

THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING NOVEL ADAPTED INTO A FEATURE FILM WITH ELIJAH WOOD From the bestselling author of Here I Am; Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and We are the Weather - a hilarious; life-affirming and utterly original novel about the search for truth 'Gripping; hilariously funny and deeply serious. An astonishing feat of writing' The Times 'One of the most impressive novel debuts of recent years' Joyce Carol Oates; Times Literary Supplement 'A first novel of startling originality' Jay McInerney; Observer 'It seems hard to believe that such a young writer can have such a deep understanding of both comedy and tragedy' Erica Wagner; The Times 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; 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...