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 Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel by Jonathan Safran FoerJewish Q&A Member Review, by "DORDOTCOM": [A story] about a young Jew (the Hero) who travels to Russia with an old photograph of his grandfather and a girl who's name is Augustine (or maybe it isn't) who supposedly saved him from the Nazis.
The book starts on March 18, 1791 and ends on January 22, 1998.
I guess this book appealed to me because of the "tales" I would hear my father and uncle speak of "Kozlovitz" the shtetl in Russia where my grandparents came from. My cousins and I used to think of Kozlovitz as a Camelot, beautiful wonderful magical where our family was royalty (rotflol)... we used to play games and I was always the Princess of Kozlovitz...
I really recommend this book.
It was wonderful.
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