wordsnquotes:MUST READ:Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer“[A] dazzling literary high-

wordsnquotes:MUST READ:Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer“[A] dazzling literary high-wire act … brilliant … The payoff is extraordinary: a fearless, acrobatic, ultimately haunting effort.“ – Janet Maslin, The New York Times Jonathan Safran Foer’s debut semi-autobiographical novel Everything Is Illuminated was published when he was 25 years old. As a freshman in Princeton University, he attended Joyce Carol Oates’ Intro to Writing class, in where she told him that his writing possessed the best quality a writer could showcase: energy. Nevertheless, Foer displays such energy, charisma and wit in Everything Is Illuminated. It follows the story of Jonathan, who hopes to meet with the woman who might have saved his grandfather from the Nazis fifty years ago in the Ukraine along with the help of his translator, Alex.Keep reading -- source link

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