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# Everything Is Illuminated

**Brand:** jonathan safran foer
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- **What is this?** Everything Is Illuminated by jonathan safran foer
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Everything Is Illuminated

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Hard to classify my response
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 13, 2022*

This was a HARD book to start.  A few pages in, I didn't think I could read it. Once I realized that it was only about every third chapter where the character spoke like someone with a huge English vocabulary but didn't speak English as their native language, I got past that and was hooked by the story.  Complex, human, insightful of horrors of WWII, a thought-providing story.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Obtuse and flawed
  

*by T***O on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 16, 2023*

This book has some powerful images and occasionally powerful writing, but it is gratuitously difficult and obtuse. The different story lines, characters and locations (shetls) bear unclear and confusing relations to each other. The humor deployed against the Ukrainian characters is juvenile. One of the few redeeming qualities of the book is the rehabilitation of the Ukrainian characters over the course of the book into human beings, as opposed to the two-dimensional buffoons they start out as. The author also, despite his own father being from the real shtetl on which the fictional Trachimbrod is based, apparently does not know, or considers unimportant, the actual sequence of historical control (Polish, Soviet, Nazi) over the region (Eastern Galicia) between 1939 and 1942, when main story of the novel ends. My own family background is similar to the author's - my grandparents were Jews from Eastern Galicia, much of their families were wiped out in the Holocaust, and I have visited the area and my grandmother's shtetl in 1995 and 2003, with Ukrainian guides. Nobody should get the idea that the book is an accurate representation of the place, either in the last 30 years, nor exactly even during the war. Where are the Ukrainian militias? Jews living on after June 1941, until March 1942, as if the Nazis were nowhere to be seen, and the Poles were still fighting them? It had been under Soviet occupation since 1939, the Nazi occupation was immediate - accomplished in days - in June 1941 - and from that point until the last executions in 1943, it was only occupation, labor, transports and death. The author is entitled to write a book that uses fantasy and surrealism to tell a story that is brutally hard to tell directly, but getting the basic history wrong on a subject as sensitive as this does a service to no one.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Illumination is more than a candle in the darkness, and frequently LESS
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 5, 2005*

Foer does nothing less than create a true work of literary genius in this book.  When Foer says, "Everything Is Illuminated" he really means everything.  All the loves and hates; all the lies and truths; all the fidelities and adulteries; all the deceits and deceptions; all the horrors and the ghosts; all the atrocities and the kindnesses, all these things, Foer illuminates for the reader.The premise of the book is that Foer's family was originally from a small town in Galicia, an area of Europe that was sometimes Poland and sometimes Austria and sometimes the Ukraine, depending on what year and who dominated the local geo-political scene at the time.  Foer goes back to try and find the one person that saved his father's life.In the process, some very bizarre coincidences happen, the kind that only happen in the sadness of the truth of real life.  And these horrible things, these haunting memories; are the things that Foer illuminates for the reader.  This story is the one that unwinds like a snaky river running through a "Heart Of Darkness."And this is only the beginning.  Foer uses one of the most unique literary styles in this book I have ever seen.  He uses punctuation, cultural difference, ethnic strife, word combinations without punctuation; to make his point even clearer, and even more dramatic.  The book is itself a work of art as well as literature.I cannot think of a reader that would not benefit from reading this book.  Its impact cannot be underestimated.  And it shall stand as one of the great creations of literature in the 21st Century.

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