Everything Is Illuminated

by Jonathan Safran Foer, Hans-Jacob Nilsson · first published 2002

Everything Is Illuminated is the first novel by the American writer Jonathan Safran Foer, published in 2002. It was adapted into a film of the same name starring Elijah Wood and Eugene Hütz in 2005. The book's writing and structure received critical acclaim for the manner in which it switches between two stories, both of which are autobiographical. One of them is the fictionalized history of the eradicated town of Trochenbrod (Trachimbrod), a real exclusively Jewish shtetl in Poland before the Holocaust where the author's grandfather was born.

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Genre:

Magic realist fiction, Family saga

Original language:

English

Reader rating:

★ 3.8 / 5 (21 on Open Library)

Year page:

2002