Exuberant and wise hysterically funny and deeply moving <strong>Everything Is Illuminated</strong> is an astonishing debut novel. In the summer after his junior... » 

Exuberant and wise hysterically funny and deeply moving Everything Is Illuminated is an astonishing debut novel. In the summer after his junior year at college a writer also named Jonathan Safran Foer journeys to the farmlands of Eastern Europe. Armed with only a yellowing photograph he sets out to find Augustine the woman might or might not be a link to the grandfather he never knew the woman who he is told saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Exuberant and wise hysterically funny and deeply moving Everything Is Illuminated is an astonishing debut novel. In the summer after his junior year at college a writer also named Jonathan Safran Foer journeys to the farmlands of Eastern Europe. Armed with only a yellowing photograph he sets out to find Augustine the woman might or might not be a link to the grandfather he never knew the woman who he is told saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Exuberant and wise hysterically funny and deeply moving Everything Is Illuminated is an astonishing debut novel. In the summer after his junior year at college a writer also named Jonathan Safran Foer journeys to the farmlands of Eastern Europe. Armed with only a yellowing photograph he sets out to find Augustine the woman might or might not be a link to the grandfather he never knew the woman who he is told saved his grandfather from the Nazis. «