Everything Is Illuminated
Front cover of hardcover edition.
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| Author | Jonathan Safran Foer |
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| Cover artist | Jon Gray (aka gray318) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin |
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Publication date
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April 16, 2002 |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| ISBN | (hardcover) |
| OCLC | 48144414 |
| 813/.6 21 | |
| LC Class | PS3606.O38 E84 2002 |
Everything Is Illuminated is the first novel by the American writer Jonathan Safran Foer, published in 2002. It was adapted into a film of the same name starring Elijah Wood and Eugene Hütz in 2005.
The book's writing and structure received critical acclaim for the manner in which it switches between two stories, both of which are autobiographical. One of them is the fictionalized history of the eradicated town of Trochenbrod (Trachimbrod), a real exclusively Jewish shtetl in Poland before the Holocaust where the author's mother was born; while the second narrative encompasses Foer's trip to Ukraine in search for the remnants and memories of Trachimbrod as well as the author's writing-in-progress.
The real town of Trochenbrod (Polish: ) was an exclusively Jewish shtetl located in the Wołyń Voivodeship of the Second Polish Republic before the Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland. After the German attack on the Soviet positions in eastern Poland during the 1941 Operation Barbarossa, a Jewish ghetto was established at Trochenbrod for local residents including those from nearby villages. The ghetto was liquidated during the Holocaust. In August and September 1942 nearly all Jews of Trochenbrod were murdered by the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police in the presence of only a few German SS men. According to Virtual Shtetl over 5,000 Jews were massacred, 3,500 of them from Zofiówka and 1,200 from nearby Lozisht (Ignatówka) among other settlements.
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