His books have won numerous awards and have been translated into 36 languages. What they find turns all their worlds upside down. JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER is the author of the novels Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and a work of nonfiction, Eating Animals.
What they are looking for seems elusive - a truth hidden behind veils of time, language and the horrors of war. The Safran Foers novel summary is also in the literary. 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. Extremely loud and incredibly close book analysis explores themes and Oskar Schell character. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis.
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. 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.
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