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Jonathan Safran Foer
ISBN: 9780141035178
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
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A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Unfortunately, however, he is aided in his quest by Alex. What they find turns all their worlds upside down.
A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Unfortunately, however, he is aided in his quest by Alex, a translator with an uncanny ability to mangle English into bizarre new forms; a 'blind' old man haunted by memories of the war; and an undersexed guide dog named Sammy Davis Jr, Jr. What they are looking for seems elusive - a truth hidden behind veils of time, language and the horrors of war. What they find turns all their worlds upside down ...
| ISBN | 014103517X | | Weight (grammes) | 220 | | ISBN13 | 9780141035178
(What's this?) | | Published in | London | | Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd | | Series title | Penguin Celebrations | | Imprint | Penguin Books Ltd | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Format | Paperback | | Width (mm) | 128 | | Publication date | 06 Sep 2007 | | Spine width (mm) | 18 | | Pages | 288 | | Academic level | General |
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