Everything is Illuminated
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Narrated by:
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Jeff Woodman
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Scott Shina
About this listen
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, read by Jeff Woodman and Scott Shina.
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...
great story great performance
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A compelling adventure through 2 layered stories
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great work
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The actually story is a mixture of 3/4 stories in one…. Fans of the movie will be familiar with the part of the story that is Alex accounting Jonathan Safran Foer being in Ukraine with them as they search for a woman who saved his grandfather.
This comes and goes between a story of the history of the Jewish Shtetl of Trochenbrod, starting over 200 years ago with the death of a man in a accident in a river, with the river giving back his daughter, who is adopted by an elderly man in the village, and accounts her growing up, her marriage and then moved on the our Hero’s grandfather and his growing up in pre-war Ukraine, and how he escaped death.
For the first 1/5 of the book it follows the movie and the parts about the girl from 200 years previously is interesting, but around the end of 1/3 part of the book it gets really dark (death, rape, abusive relationships, adulatory…. And this is before we get to WW2 part of the story), and unsettling, and you do long for it to get back to Alex and his grandfather to lighten the mood, but even that does not help.
All in all a hard book to put down that does have a habit of going off in places, but not for the faint hearted in places.
Rather disappointing ending, but still a great story.
Fans of the movie will enjoy this
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By far the best book I've ever read (& now heard)
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