Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel
From The Philadelphia Inquirer: "A rambunctious tour de force of inventive and intelligent storytelling . . . Foer can place his reader's hand on the heart of human experience, the transcendent beauty of human connections. Read, you can feel the life beating."
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From Publishers Weekly (starred review): "The latest from novelist Foer is a surprising but characteristically brilliant memoir-investigation, boasting an exhaustively-argued account of one man-child's decade-long struggle with vegetarianism."
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I've been meaning to read this for FOREVER (and even purchased the audio a couple of years ago!) because readers with good taste keep telling me it's amazing. From Booklist This follow-up to Foer's extremely good and incredibly successful Everything Is Illuminated stars one Oskar Schell, a nine-year-old amateur inventor and Shakespearean actor. But Oskar's boots, as he likes to say, are very heavy--his father, whom he worshiped, perished in the World Trade Center on 9/11. In his dad's closet a year later, Oskar finds a key in a vase mysteriously labeled "Black." So he goes searching after the lock it opens, visiting (alphabetically) everyone listed in the phone book with the surname Black. No spoilers here, but we will say that the book ends with what is undoubtedly the most beautiful and heartbreaking flip book in all of literature."
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