Everything is Illuminated
Registered by Dauw of Leiden, Zuid-Holland Netherlands on 5/22/2018
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
2 journalers for this copy...
The famous novel by Jonathan Safran Foer. *One of* his famous novels, even.
Journal Entry 2 by Dauw at Minibieb OBCZ Hotel De Doelen in Leiden, Zuid-Holland Netherlands on Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Released 5 yrs ago (5/22/2018 UTC) at Minibieb OBCZ Hotel De Doelen in Leiden, Zuid-Holland Netherlands
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Left it at the OBCZ shelf.
Picked this up at OBCZ Hotel De Doelen as part of my "leave one, take one" philosophy, and this looked sufficiently different to fit my quirky tastes.
It does take a bit of getting into. One thread of the story is set in a very Jewish Ukrainian stetl at the end of the 1700s; one thread consists of letters written by Alex, who regularly uses the wrong word from a thesaurus in his translations to English (I still don't know what "spleened" should really be); and the third thread follows a road trip through the Ukraine where Alex plays down the negative things said to Jonathan when he translates.
It's all a bit confusing, and a bit exaggerated (and reminded me of The Tin Drum by Günther Grass) but it does all come together in a whirlwind of revelations at the end.
Journal Entry 4 by engelsman at Hôtel des Roches in Kourou, Guyane France on Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Left on the guests' bookshelf in the lobby
[Release entry relocated from Guyane Francaise / Wild release somewhere in state]
[Release entry relocated from Guyane Francaise / Wild release somewhere in state]