December's Book: Everything is Illuminated
So looks like we're on for reading Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer during the holidays!!! Nice pick, Nidhi!
Everything Is Illuminated
At once hilarious and deeply moving, Jonathan Safran Foer's brilliant debut novel juxtaposes a boastful young Ukrainian guide -- whose endearingly mangled English makes for one of the most wildly original narrations in memory -- with a self-deprecating American Jew in search of his family's roots in a long-forgotten Russian shtetl. As the seemingly mismatched pair pursues an odyssey through post-Soviet Ukraine, they discover a common ground that illuminates if not everything, then at least the resilience of the human spirit and the redemptive power of friendship. Writing for The New York Times, Francine Prose said of Everything Is Illuminated: "Not since ... A Clockwork Orange has the English language been simultaneously mauled and energized with such brilliance."
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