Author: Jonathan Safran Foer
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Genre: Novel
A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman, who 50 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 bizarre new forms; a 'blind' old man haunted by memories of the war; and an undersexed guide dog named Sammy Davis Jnr, Jnr. What they are looking for seems elusive - a truth hidden behind the veils of time, language and the horrors of war. What they find turns their worlds upside down ...
ISBN: 9780141008257
