by Jonathan Safran Foer · FISCHER Taschenbuch · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783596156283
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«Alles ist erleuchtet» is the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, published in German by FISCHER Taschenbuch in paperback (383 pages).
A young American travels to Ukraine to find the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis during World War II. He is accompanied by a Ukrainian veteran and his grandson, and the three travel across the country on a journey in which family secrets and episodes of Jewish history surface, in a polyphonic narrative that mixes humor and drama.
Novel originally published in English as «Everything Is Illuminated» (2002) and translated into German by Dirk van Gunsteren; part of the Fischer Taschenbücher Allgemeine Reihe series (number 15628).
Recommended for readers of contemporary literary fiction and those interested in novels about historical memory and World War II.
Jonathan Safran Foer is an American novelist. He is known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005), Here I Am (2016), and for his non-fiction works Eating Animals (2009) and We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (2019). He teaches creative writing at New York University.
