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Indlæser... Alt bliver oplyst : en roman (2002)af Jonathan Safran Foer
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Translation of Everything is illuminated One of my sons thought I would be interested in reading Everything is Illuminated; he was correct! While the story is fictional, and not autobiographic, the hame of the author, Jonathan Foer, and main character are the same. The story takes place in the context of Jonathan's trip to the Ukraine where he has gone to attempt to find his grandfather's shtetl, Trachimbrod, and to learn about his life there. in the mainJewish-American writer's attempt learn about his life. Jonathon, a young Jewish American has only a few maps and a photograph of a woman named Augustine, who is said to have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Jonathan's guide on his trip is Alex, a young Ukrainian man. They are both twenty-one. Their driver, Alex's grandfather, who claims to be blind, also brings his dog, "Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior" along on the trip. Alex's fractured English and cultural differences between him and Jonathon make many of their interactions both amusing and confounding. The trip to Trachimbrod becomes a cross-country odessey when Sammy Davis Junior Junior eats Jonathan's maps. As the title suggests, one of the best things about this book is Foer's use of pidgin English. It's not even really pidgin English, though, it's most like the kind of English you hear from someone who's learned English without learning any of the conventions of a native speaker, and it just ends up making a wonky kind of sense. One of my favorite parts is when Alex is telling a story about getting in a car accident and he says "My face gave a high-five to the windshield" (or something like that). It really cracked me up. Yes! A book about the Holocaust made me laugh. Crazy. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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Den ukrainske tolk Alex fortæller retrospektivt om amerikanske Jonathans rejse til Ukraine for at finde Augustine, som hjalp hans morfar under nazitiden. Med på turen er desuden Alex's farfar og familiehunden Sammy Davis Junior Junior. Sideløbende fortælles historien om en familie i Trachimbrod. No library descriptions found. |
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