Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

Hardcover. Condition: Fine, Dust Jacket: Fine. 2002. Houghton Mifflin Co. Signed and Inscribed by Author.

Inscribed: "For Esther to spleen: (v) to vex, anger, piss off, etc. Jounathan Safran Foer"

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, 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 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.