American · b. 1977
Jonathan Safran Foer is an American novelist known for inventive, emotionally ambitious fiction, author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.
Jonathan Safran Foer made a striking debut with Everything Is Illuminated (2002), a formally inventive novel about a young American’s search for the woman who saved his grandfather during the Holocaust, blending humor, tragedy, and experimental storytelling.
His follow-up, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, told the story of a boy navigating grief after the September 11 attacks. He has also written the nonfiction Eating Animals and the climate book We Are the Weather, reflecting his moral and ethical preoccupations.
Foer is admired for his imaginative ambition and emotional intensity, and for fiction that experiments with form in the service of deep feeling.
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer's acclaimed debut. A young American named Jonathan travels to Ukraine to find the woman who may have saved his grandfather from the Nazis, guided by a hilariously mistranslating young guide named Alex — a novel that braids comedy, history, and the weight of the Holocaust.
Check Price on Amazon (paid link)Disclosure: Amazon links on this page are affiliate links. If you purchase through them we earn a small commission at no extra cost to you.