With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man - also named Jonathan Safran Foer - sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war, an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior, and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butche...
With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man - also named Jonathan Safran Foer - sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war, an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior, and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape and into an unexpected past.
As their adventure unfolds, Jonathan imagines the history of his grandfather's village, conjuring a magical fable of startling symmetries that unite generations across time. Lit by passion, fear, guilt, memory, and hope, the characters in Everything Is Illuminated mine the black holes of history. As the search moves back in time, the fantastical history moves forward, until reality collides with fiction in a heart-stopping scene of extraordinary power.
An arresting blend of high comedy and great tragedy, this is a story about searching for people and places that no longer exist, for the hidden truths that haunt every family, and for the delicate but necessary tales that link past and future. Exuberant and wise, hysterically funny and deeply moving, EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED is an astonishing debut.
太棒了。好久没有读一本书读的这么心潮澎湃,后半本读的完全停不下来。读到最后几章的时候,仿佛整个人都被那些孤独和宿命感击碎了。不知如何会让我想到百年孤独。
其实人和人之间的不能理解,对信仰的不同坚持造成的裂缝,直到世界性的战争,都是宿命般地循环播放。所有的荒诞在漫天火光中都变成了现实。Everything is illuminated. 看到这里是感觉到是无法逃脱宿命的恐惧。
刚读了一遍,照理说是不应该过早评论。但真的是很讨厌这种顶着聪明创新帽子肆无忌惮玩后现代伎俩的作品!在其他主题卖弄我可以接受,甚至可能会欣赏,说到底文学的意义并不在于制止坦克,但在大屠杀之类厚重主题上跳电子脱衣舞也太过分了吧!没有厚重灵魂的聪明鬼,the banality of genius asshole!!
Does it need to be so tangled and sad? After all Fiction is not my cup of tea, although I somehow liked this same author’s later work - “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”.
1 有用 Maltesers 2014-09-21 22:31:32
Sad and funny at the same time. The last few chapters are so intense and so heartbreaking that they made me cry...
3 有用 自负的大撸sir 2013-10-29 13:21:12
作者跟他爷爷陪美国人在乌克兰寻根找人、美国人讲述他爷爷的故事、作者给美国人的回信,3条主线,相互穿插。语言难度4颗星。听说电影也不错,有机会看
0 有用 佩奇戴 2018-10-21 04:11:58
来自于非南美洲的魔幻现实主义作家
0 有用 oшoш 2016-05-14 11:20:26
大学时候读的,不要跟着这本书学英语系列
0 有用 绿紫桑 2013-05-05 13:35:22
看他的第一本书。
0 有用 momo 2024-01-01 11:41:37 黑龙江
看哭了
0 有用 Micco_D 2022-07-26 20:52:25
迟来的标注:疯狂推荐,好看到哭,句子像诗,故事像梦。真实和编造的过去真的有差别吗?“AND IF WE ARE TO STRIVE FOR A BETTER FUTURE, MUSTN’T WE BE FAMILIAR AND RECONCILED WITH OUR PAST?”
0 有用 没有名字 2020-11-19 21:07:20
太棒了。好久没有读一本书读的这么心潮澎湃,后半本读的完全停不下来。读到最后几章的时候,仿佛整个人都被那些孤独和宿命感击碎了。不知如何会让我想到百年孤独。 其实人和人之间的不能理解,对信仰的不同坚持造成的裂缝,直到世界性的战争,都是宿命般地循环播放。所有的荒诞在漫天火光中都变成了现实。Everything is illuminated. 看到这里是感觉到是无法逃脱宿命的恐惧。
2 有用 Philex 2019-10-21 08:41:27
刚读了一遍,照理说是不应该过早评论。但真的是很讨厌这种顶着聪明创新帽子肆无忌惮玩后现代伎俩的作品!在其他主题卖弄我可以接受,甚至可能会欣赏,说到底文学的意义并不在于制止坦克,但在大屠杀之类厚重主题上跳电子脱衣舞也太过分了吧!没有厚重灵魂的聪明鬼,the banality of genius asshole!!
0 有用 MlleHui 2018-12-29 15:03:27
Does it need to be so tangled and sad? After all Fiction is not my cup of tea, although I somehow liked this same author’s later work - “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”.