Everything Is Illuminated
Ratings98
Average rating3.9
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Ratings98
Average rating3.9
A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Unfortunately, however, he is aided in his quest by Alex, a translator with an uncanny ability to mangle English into new forms; a 'blind' old man haunted by memories of the war; and an undersexed guide dog named Sammy Davis, Jr, Jr. What they are looking for seems elusive - a truth hidden behind veils of time, language and the horrors of war. What they find turns all their worlds upside down..
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A great read. Very well-written and humorous, while still being touching.
I just re-read this. I don't think I liked it as much the second time. I'm not sure. Maybe I was just feeling grumpier the second time around.
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i thought i would get tired of alex's comic-effect bad english, but i never did. it was hilarious. also, it is hard to write a holocaust-journey-of-remembrance without being a big ol' cliche, but i didn't think this was. basically i liked it a whole lot and cried a l'il bit.
