Everything is Illuminated

First UK edition. First UK Edition. 8vo. Pp. vi, 276, [6 (blank)]. White cloth boards, lettered in black to spine; cream endpapers. Reversible, b/w dust jacket design by Anne Chalmers, with Joyce Carol Oates blurb on panels.

Signed by Author to title page.

Foer's debut novel. Winner of the 2002 Guardian First Book Award, the 2001 National Jewish Book Award and the first biennial William Saroyan Writing Prize. Named Book of the Year by The Los Angeles Times. Portions of this novel first appeared in The New Yorker. The quixotic journey of a young man to the Ukraine to find the woman who may have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. He is aided in his quest by a blind old man, a randy guide dog named Sammy Davis Jr, Jr and an atrocious translator. Basis for the film adaptation by Liev Schreiber, with Elijah Wood, Eugene Hütz, and a fleeting appearance by Foer himself which went on to win the Laterna Magica Prize at the 2005 Venice Film Festival. "Not since A Clockwork Orange has the English language been simultaneously mauled and energized with such brilliance and brio." –Francine Prose, New York Times Book Review