![]() Humor seems to be an appropriate way to tell a very dark tale. The dog, named after the Rat Pack singer, is a humorous presence for the way she continually licks the hands and other body parts of her human friends. His translator is Alex, a Ukrainian student whose English skills are dubious at best, and his driver is Alex’s grandfather, also named Alex, whose bitterness as he mourns the death of his wife can only be lifted by his “seeing-eye bitch,” the dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior. Jonathan Safran Foer is that young man, a college student who coincidentally possesses the same name as the author, leaving the reader only to speculate about just how much is fact and fiction as Foer braves both Eastern Europe and his Jewish past. ![]() ![]() ![]() On the surface, Everything is Illuminated is the tale of a young man’s search for the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis, a woman who is known only through a grainy photograph and caption which reads, “Augustine.” ![]()
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