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| | Jonathan Safran Foer : Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close : Everything is Illuminated :Review |
 | | Everything is Illuminated is messy, confusing, and at some points, startling, but remains one of the few books I've read recently that remains true to its story while still challenging the reader to experience the work on a different level. |
 | | Although not everything in the story actually is illuminated, the origin of her name is. Anti-Semitism still runs unchecked through the Ukraine although Alex believes Jonathan is "not troublemaking, but a good person, and that you are not a Jew with a large-size letter J, but a jew, like Albert Einstein or Jerry Seinfeld." |
 | | Everything Is Illuminated began as a thesis at Princeton under advisers Joyce Carol Oates and Jeffrey Eugenides, and Houghton Mifflin reportedly paid somewhere around half a million dollars for the rights. |
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