Ogni cosa è illuminata
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9788882464165 (8882464164)
Publish date: January 1st 2002
Publisher: Guanda
Pages no: 327
Edition language: Italian
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Jewish,
Contemporary,
World War II,
Holocaust
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 amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior; and the unfor...
“I’m looking for a book.” He told the Librarian, who had cared for the Trachimbrod novels since she was a girl, and was the only citizen to have read them all. “My Great-Grandfather wrote it.” “What was his name?” “Safranbrod, but I think he wrote it under a pseudonym.” “What was the name of his boo...
I didn't know what to expect as I first started to read it, but as I continued on through the book, I became more attached to all the characters and the story they were trying to tell. Very unique and well executed way of telling this story. I am definitely going to check out Foer's other books. O...
This book is the best trip ever. It is full of wonderful quotes, like the whole book is quotable.
Ugh, no. The writing was juvenile (I mean, I know he was younger than I am now when he wrote this, but COME ON). I am severely turned off by body function humour - I just don't like it. The descriptions of Brod were creepy to me, beyond feeling like they were being imputed to the members of the v...
9 years ago
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