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Book Review of Everything Is Illuminated

Everything Is Illuminated
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With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man-also named Jonathan Safran Foer-sets out to find the woman who may or may not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war; an amourous dog named Sammy Davis, Jr. Jr.; and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape and into an unexpected past.