Amazon Editorial Review
"Everything Is Illuminated" is Jonathan Safran Foer's bestselling novel of a search for truth. It is the inspiration for the Liev Schreiber film, starring Elijah Wood. 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, 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..."

Taking this to the London bookcrossers meetup.

..aand the book's going to travel to Finland! I just had to grab it from the table as the title seemed very familiar from reviews, and a Guardian award rarely is wrong... Great meting you, jo_an_a!

It took the book far too long to pick up the pace for my liking. Less explaining and character building, faster to the point and into the really interesting stuff! Not a bad book as such, but apparently my book curse hit once again - I'm doomed not to like acclaimed books... There will probably be more keen readers for this one, so it's time to let it travel again!

Grab the book for company from the departure lobby book shelf! Happy reading!