- Humorous stories, Grandfathers, Novelists, Fiction
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, however, he is aided in his quest by Alex, a translator with an uncanny ability to mangle English into 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..
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- Author
- Jonathan Safran Foer
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, W.A.B. / GW Foksal, HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 38
- Language
- srp, German, French, Russian
- ISBN
- 9783596156283
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