Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer [FIRST EDITION] 2002

Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer  FIRST EDITION • SECOND PRINTING [2002] HOUGHTON MIFFLIN CO. Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.  Dust jacket is excellent; near mint with trace shelf wear.  Now housed in a new HQ archival quality jacket protector. Book has a few markings to boards; otherwise excellent.  Reads good as new!  With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man - also named Jonathan Safran Foer - sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war, an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior, and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape and into an unexpected past. As their adventure unfolds, Jonathan imagines the history of his grandfather's village, conjuring a magical fable of startling symmetries that unite gen