A novel about a young American Jewish man’s search for the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis won Britain’s $15,000 Guardian First Book Award. The judges praised Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Everything Is Illuminated” for its “stylistic daring and originality, as well as the book’s shattering conclusion.”
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