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Jonathan Safran Foer
ISBN: 9780141804330
Format: Audio CD
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Edition: Abridged edition
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A young man arrives in the Ukraine with a tattered photograph, a bad translator, a man haunted by memories and an undersexed guide dog - he is looking for the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. What they find turns all their worlds upside down.
This is the story of a young man who visits the Ukraine to find the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. In turns hilarious and harrowing, lit with a manic energy, it is narrated in part by a Ukranian translator, who has a murderous approach to the English language, and in part by the young man, who reanimates the lives of his grandfather and ancestors. Eventually the past meets the present, as fiction collides with reality in an unforgettable climax. With breathtaking inventiveness and narrative control, Jonathan Safran Foer has written a book about searching - for people and places that no longer exist, for a lost history - that reaches heights of comic mayhem and heartrending tragedy in equal measure.
| ISBN | 0141804335 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | ISBN13 | 9780141804330
(What's this?) | | Pages | 6 | | Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd | | Volumes | 6 Audio CDs | | Imprint | Penguin Books Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 218 | | Format | Audio CD | | Published in | London | | Publication date | 05 Jun 2003 | | Height (mm) | 176 | | Non-book description | approx 6 hours running time | | Width (mm) | 126 | | Playing time (mins) | 360 | | Spine width (mm) | 25 | | DEWEY | 813.6 | | Academic level | General |
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