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Everything is Illuminated (audio book)
Autor: Jonathan Safran Foer
Wydawnictwo: PenguinISBN: 9780141804330
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Data wydania: 2003-02-01
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, however, he is aided in his quest by Alex, a translator with an uncanny ability to mangle English into bizarre new forms; a #8216;blind#8217; 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 #8211; a truth hidden behind veils of time, language and the horrors of war. What they find turns all their worlds upside down #8230;
#8216;An astonishing feat of writing: hilariously funny and deeply serious, a gripping narrative. Extraordinary#8217;nbsp;
The Times
#8216;Genuinely gripping, consistently entertaining, dazzlingly imaginative#8217;nbsp;
Evening Standard
#8216;Outrageously ambitious, extraordinarily moving and utterly successful#8217;nbsp;
Financial Times
#8216;Hilarious, exhilarating, often deeply moving#8217;nbsp;
Jewish Chronicle
#8216;Serious, funny, yet achingly heartbreaking#8217;nbsp;
Herald
#8216;Powerful and shocking. Burns with harsh and sincere emotion#8217;nbsp;
List
#8216;Spectacular #8211; extremely funny, linguistically brilliant and at times very moving#8217;nbsp;
Observer
#8216;A work of genius. A new kind of novel #8230; after it things will never be the same again. It will blow you away#8217;nbsp;
The Times
#8216;Wise, funny, unbearably sad. Speeds across the sky like a new-century comet heralding great events in the asteroid belt of fiction#8217;nbsp;
Financial Times
#8216;Astonishing #8230; a shattering climax. A work of formidable talent#8217;nbsp;
Independent
#8216;An engaging work of wit and invention#8217;nbsp;
New Statesman
#8216;Effervescent and recklessly unordinary #8230; so vibrant and playful #8230; calling to mind Philip Roth, James Joyce, Laurence Sterne and Milan Kundera#8217;nbsp;
The Times Literary Supplement
#8216;A walloping debut#8217;nbsp;
Time Out
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From Chapter 1:
My legal name is Alexander Perchov.nbsp; But all of my friends dub me Alex, because that is a more flaccid-to-utter version of legal name.nbsp; Mother dubs me Alexi-stop-spleening-me!, because I am always spleening her.nbsp; If you want to know why I am always spleening her, it is because I am always elsewhere with friends, and disseminating so much currency, and performing so many things that can spleen a mother. Father used to dub me Shapka, for the fur hat I would don even in the summer month.nbsp; He ceased dubbing me that because I ordered him to cease dubbing me that.nbsp; It sounded boyish to me, and I have always thought of myself as very potent and generative.nbsp; I have many many girls, believe me, and they all have a different name for me.nbsp; One dubs me Baby, not because I am a baby, but because she attends to me. Another dubs me All Night.nbsp; Do you want to know why?nbsp; I have a girl who dubs me Currency, because I disseminate so much currency around her.nbsp; She licks my chops for it.nbsp; I have a miniature brother who dubs me Alli.nbsp; I do not dig this name very much, but I dig him very much, so OK, I permit to dub me Alli.nbsp; As for his name, it is Little Igor, but Father dubs him Clumsy One, because he is always promenading into things.nbsp; It was only four days previous that he made his eye blue from a mismanagement with a brick wall.nbsp; If you're wondering what my bitch's name is, it is Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior.nbsp; She has this name because Sammy Davis, Junior was Grandfather's beloved singer, and the bitch is his, not mine, because I am not the one who thinks he is blind.
From Chapter 2:
It was March 18, 1791, when Trachim B's do
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