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Conjunctions 36: Dark Laughterby Joyce Carol Oates, Bradford Morrow, Jonathan Safran FoerISBN 0941964523 (0-941964-52-3)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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A Convergence of Birds : Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornellby Jonathan Safran FoerISBN 0241142156 (0-241-14215-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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The Diary of Petr Ginz: 1941-1942by Jonathan Safran FoerISBN 0871139669 (0-87113-966-9)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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Everything Is Illuminatedby Jonathan Safran FoerISBN 0060529709 (0-06-052970-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Everything Is Illuminated'Book summary:The simplest thing would be to describe Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer's accomplished debut, as a novel about the Holocaust. It is, but that really fails to do justice to the sheer ambition of this book. The main story is a grimly familiar one. A young Jewish American--who just happens to be called Jonathan Safran Foer--travels to the Ukraine in the hope of finding the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. He is aided in his search by Alex Perchov, a naïve Ukrainian translator, Alex's grandfather (also called Alex), and a flatulent mongrel dog named Sammy Davis Jr. Jr. On their journey through Eastern Europe's obliterated landscape they unearth facts about the Nazi atrocities and the extent of Ukrainian complicity that have implications for Perchov as well as Safran Foer. This narrative is not, however, recounted from (the character) Jonathan Safran Foer's perspective. It is relayed through a series of letters that Alex sends to Foer. These are written in the kind of broken Russo-English normally reserved for Bond villains or Latka from Taxi. Interspersed between these letters are fragments of a novel by Safran Foer--a wonderfully imagined, almost magical realist, account of life in the shtetl before the Nazis destroyed it. These are in turn commented on by Alex, creating an additional metafictional angle to the tale.
If all this sounds a little daunting, don't be put off; Safran Foer is an extremely funny as well as intelligent writer who combines some of the best Jewish folk yarns since Isaac Bashevis Singer with a quite heartbreaking meditation on love, friendship, and loss. --Travis Elborough, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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- Everything Is Illuminated: ISBN 0060792175 (0-06-079217-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Everything Is Illuminated: ISBN 0061686670 (0-06-168667-0)
Softcover, Perennial - Everything Is Illuminated : A Novel: ISBN 0141008253 (0-14-100825-3)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited - Everything Is Illuminated : A Novel: ISBN 0141025271 (0-14-102527-1)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited - Everything Is Illuminated: ISBN 0618173870 (0-618-17387-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel: ISBN 0141013184 (0-14-101318-4)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited - Everything Is Illuminated : A Novel: ISBN 0241141834 (0-241-14183-4)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited - Everything Is Illuminated : A Novel: ISBN 0241141664 (0-241-14166-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Books, Limited - Everything Is Illuminated: ISBN 0060529709 (0-06-052970-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
- Everything Is Illuminated: ISBN 0060792175 (0-06-079217-5)
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Closeby Jonathan Safran FoerISBN 0618329706 (0-618-32970-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close'Book summary:Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history. What he discovers is solace in that most human quality, imagination.[via]
Meet Oskar Schell, an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, pacifist, correspondent with Stephen Hawking and Ringo Starr. He is nine years old. And he is on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York. His mission is to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11.
An inspired innocent, Oskar is alternately endearing, exasperating, and hilarious as he careens from Central Park to Coney Island to Harlem on his search. Along the way he is always dreaming up inventions to keep those he loves safe from harm. What about a birdseed shirt to let you fly away? What if you could actually hear everyone's heartbeat? His goal is hopeful, but the past speaks a loud warning in stories of those who've lost loved ones before. As Oskar roams New York, he encounters a motley assortment of humanity who are all survivors in their own way. He befriends a 103-year-old war reporter, a tour guide who never leaves the Empire State Building, and lovers enraptured or scorned. Ultimately, Oskar ends his journey where it began, at his father's grave. But now he is accompanied by the silent stranger who has been renting the spare room of his grandmother's apartment. They are there to dig up his father's empty coffin.More editions of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close:
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Closeby Jonathan Safran FoerISBN 0141012692 (0-14-101269-2)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close'Book summary:Read the bestseller that inspired the movie with Tom Hanks. [via]
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- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close : A Novel: ISBN 0241142148 (0-241-14214-8)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: ISBN 0618711651 (0-618-71165-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close : A Novel: ISBN 024114213X (0-241-14213-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Books, Limited - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: ISBN 0141012692 (0-14-101269-2)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close : A Novel: ISBN 0241142148 (0-241-14214-8)
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The Fixerby Jonathan Safran FoerISBN 0374529388 (0-374-52938-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fixer'Book summary:[via]The Fixer is the winner of the 1967 National Book Award for Fiction and the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
The Fixer (1966) is Bernard Malamud's best-known and most acclaimed novel -- one that makes manifest his roots in Russian fiction, especially that of Isaac Babel.
Set in Kiev in 1911 during a period of heightened anti-Semitism, the novel tells the story of Yakov Bok, a Jewish handyman blamed for the brutal murder of a young Russian boy. Bok leaves his village to try his luck in Kiev, and after denying his Jewish identity, finds himself working for a member of the anti-Semitic Black Hundreds Society. When the boy is found nearly drained of blood in a cave, the Black Hundreds accuse the Jews of ritual murder. Arrested and imprisoned, Bok refuses to confess to a crime that he did not commit.More editions of The Fixer:
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Future Dictionary of Americaby Jonathan Safran Foer , Nicole Krauss, Dave EggersISBN 0241143128 (0-241-14312-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Future Dictionary of America'Book summary:Imagine what a dictionary might look like about thirty years hence, when all of the world's problems are solved and our current dictionaries are a distant memory. Dave Eggers, Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss have lined up an incredible array of writers to bring you that futuristic dictionary and a vision of the world as it might be. Think of it as a dictionary of language for describing what the future could look like a dictionary that is both useful and romantic, hopeful and necessary, pragmatic and idealistic, and frequently funny. This is science fiction but with a difference. [via]
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The Gunter Grass Readerby Jonathan Safran Foer , Nicole Krauss, Dave EggersISBN 0156029928 (0-15-602992-8)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gunter Grass Reader'Book summary:Selected from the vast range of his work, the writings included in this anthology trace Günter Grass's development as a writer, and with it the history of a nation coming to terms with its past.[via]
Excerpts from Grass's major novels-from The Tin Drum to Crabwalk-are included, as are numerous short fictions, essays, and poems, many of which have never appeared before in English. Grass's gifts as an observer of and participant in the social and political landscape are justly celebrated, as are his inimitable sense of humor, his consistent defense of the disadvantaged, and his mastery of the forms of expression he has employed over the years.
For readers in search of an introduction to his work or for those familiar primarily with his novels, this diverse collection offers a fresh and stimulating introduction to one of the world's greatest living writers.More editions of The Gunter Grass Reader:
Joeby Hiroshi Sugimoto, Jonathan Safran Foer , Matthias WaschekISBN 0971464839 (0-9714648-3-9)
Softcover, Pulitzer Foundation For The Arts
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The Street of Crocodiles and Other Storiesby Bruno Schulz, Celina Wieniewska, Jonathan Safran Foer , David A. GoldfarbISBN 0143105140 (0-14-310514-0)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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Unabridged Pocketbook of Lightningby Jonathan Safran FoerISBN 0141023066 (0-14-102306-6)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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