Review:
"Not since Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange has the English language been simultaneously mauled and energized with such brilliance and such brio." -- Francine Prose, New York Times Book Review, Notable Books of 2002
"Read it, and you'll feel altered, chastened--seared in the fire of something new." -- Washington Post
"Comedy and pathos are braided together with extraordinary skill in a haunting debut . . . riveting intensity and originality." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"A certified wunderkind at twenty-five . . . a funny, moving . . . deeply felt novel about the dangers of confronting the past and the redemption that comes with laughing at it, even when that seems all but impossible." -- Time
"It's wonderful to think that the very young Jonathan Safran Foer . . . can be writing so well and with such lofty aspriation. It will be wonderful if he writes many more books." -- Adam Begley, New York Observer
"A book that illuminates so much with such odd and original beauty." -- Daniel Mendelsohn, New York Magazine
"[A] dazzling literary high-wire act . . . brilliant . . . The payoff is extraordinary: a fearless, acrobatic, ultimately haunting effort." -- Janet Maslin, New York Times
"[An] enormously impressive first novel . . . Everything is illuminated, indeed, by this talented artist's furious, glorious starburst of prose." -- Dan Cryer, Newsday
"Maybe two or three times in a lifetime, a book transcends its genre to become experience. Everything Is Illuminated is an event of this order." -- Dorothea Strauss, Baltimore Sun
"A zestfully imagined novel of wonders both magical and mundane . . . He will win your admiration, and he will break your heart." -- Joyce Carol Oates
"Extraordinarily gifted . . . this young man also happens to possess something approaching wisdom. Don't just check him out. Read him." -- Russell Banks
"It is one of the best novels I've ever been fortunate enough to hold in my hands." -- Dale Peck
"One of the most impressive first novels in a long time . . . this book is, as its name implies, brilliant." -- Adrienne Miller, Esquire
"Madcap virtuosity . . . takes big risks but reaps big rewards, affirming the human spirit in such profoundly triumphant fashion . . ." -- Don McCleese, MSNBC.com
"J. S. Foer's Everything Is Illuminated is a novel intricate in structure, fantastical in its story, and irreverent in a hundred different ways." -- Nathan Englander
"A writer of magnificent energy and obvious talent." -- Newark Star-Ledger
"Everything Is Illuminated is often brilliant." -- San Francisco Chronicle
"[A] stunning debut . . . So put off your plans to write the next Great American Novel--Foer's beaten you to it." -- Maxim
"Without a doubt, Jonathan Safran Foer's first novel, Everything Is Illuminated, establishes him as one of the best young novelists around . . . A generosity of vision that is one of the true marks of a great writer." -- Time Out New York
"Have you ever found, after finishing a completely awesome book, that you have so many competing impulses about what to do next that you become frozen by excitement? That is how I feel right now. One thing I want to do . . . is tell every single one of my friends that I have just finished reading Everything Is Illuminated, an amazingly funny, adventuruous and powerful novel . . . I was dumbstruck with amazement and joy." -- Vancouver Sun
"He has given us a deeply resonant work that could only be the first great American Jewish novel of the twenty-first century." -- Jewish Daily Forward
"Foer has written a glittering first novel . . . with great humor, sympathy, charm and daring. Every page is illuminated." -- Jeffrey Eugenides
"Everything is Illuminated is not only an extraordinary addition to novels about the Holocaust, but also the most impressive first novel I've read in years." -- Sanford Pinsker, Hadassah Magazine
"A rambunctious tour de force of inventive and intelligent storytelling . . . Foer can place his reader's hand on the heart of human experience, the transcendent beauty of human connections. Read, you can feel the life beating." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
"Inventive, boisterous." -- Memphis Commercial Appeal
About the Author:
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER is the author of the novels Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and a work of nonfiction, Eating Animals. His books have won numerous awards and have been translated into thirty-six languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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