by Jonathan Safran Foer · Guanda · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788823516267
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«Ogni cosa è illuminata» is Jonathan Safran Foer's novel, published by Guanda in paperback (336 pages, in Italian).
A young American Jewish student travels to Ukraine with an old photograph to find Augustine, the woman who may have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by Alex, an eccentric local guide, his account alternates with the story of a Jewish community from the eighteenth century to its destruction in the Holocaust.
Work originally published in 2002, translated into Italian by Massimo Bocchiola. Won the Guardian First Book Award.
For readers of literary and historical fiction, with an interest in narratives about memory, travel, and the Holocaust.
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.
