Mixedthis book was a weird book I don't think I loved it that much so I'm gonna get rid of it
Everything Is Illuminated (2002)
Creators: Mixed 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..
MixedSimilar books
- The Remains of the Day
- Michael Kohlhaas
- The Last Thing You Surrender
- Those Who Save Us
- The Women of Jersey Island
- The Women of Jersey Island
Kazuo IshiguroIn the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past . . .A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House, of lost causes and lost love.
Why?
What made the match, strongest first
Liked by creators86 reviews- Also historical fiction83%
- A creator reacted alike14%
- Similar descriptions3%