Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Jonathan Safran Foer's debut—"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)

With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man—also named Jonathan Safran Foer—sets out on a quest into his family history to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis.

Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of...