Jonathan Safran Foer

The second voice

by Keith Taylor

posted 4/1/2003

Jonathan Safran Foer's wildly successful first novel, Everything Is Illuminated, is told in two voices. The first is that of a young American named Jonathan Safran Foer, "our hero," a secular and assimilated Jew, who takes a hurried trip to Ukraine to try to find the shtetl where his family lived before World War II. He has the name of a village

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