Before the Decade Ends, Here Are the Best Novels of the 21st Century

Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (2002)

Jonathan Safran Foer is both the author and the titular character in Everything is Illuminated, a novel describing the journey of a young American Jew who travels to Ukraine in search of the woman who saved his grandfather’s life. Everything is Illuminated was Safran Foer’s debut novel, later being adapted into a film of the same name in 2005 starring Eliah Wood.

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