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Everything is Illuminated

By: Jonathan Safran Foer
Narrated by: Jeff Woodman, Scott Shina
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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...

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I chose to listen Everything is Illuminated, because Veritasium recommended and oh boy I'm not disappointed at all :)

Awesome book, awesome performance!

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It starts like Borat the novel, written in the strange coded language of a translator who picks the wrong option from a thesaurus. Very funny and wry and human - and it creeps up on you just how poignant the novel is in so many ways as the story unfolds. The pathos is elevated by the slapstick humour and always remains dignified.

Very original

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a beautiful story if a little hard to follow. Very funny and deeply moving. The performance from the two actors is amazing

great story great performance

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you'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll smirk, you'll gasp. the language and dialogue is playful and somehow rings true more than most works of fiction in any discipline. the different layers of story will give sharp observations and insight on the different states of hunan being.

A compelling adventure through 2 layered stories

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slow start but stick with it, a wonderful story which touches on the horrors of the not to distant past.

great work

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