Everything is IlluminatedJonathan Safran Foer's bestselling debut novel, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time 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, he is aided in his quest by Alex, a translator with an uncanny ability to mangle English into bizarre new forms; a \"blind\" old man haunted by memories of the war; and an