# Everything is Illuminated

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- Book: [Everything is Illuminated](https://www.bookquiver.com/j-s-foer/everything-is-illuminated) ([Everything is Illuminated.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/j-s-foer/everything-is-illuminated.md))
- Authors: [J. S. Foer](https://www.bookquiver.com/j-s-foer)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4197-889-4
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2016-08-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## 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, 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.