Jonathan Safran Foer

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A monumental new novel from the bestselling author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.In the book of Genesis, when God calls out, Abraham! to order him to sacrifice his son Isaac, Abraham responds, Here I am. Later, when Isaac calls out, My father! to ask him why there is no animal to slaughter, Abraham responds, Here I am.How do we fulfill our conflicting duties as father, husband, and son; wife and mother; child and adult? Jew and American? How can we claim our own identities when our lives are linked so closely to others? These are the questions at the heart of Jonathan Safran Foers first novel in eleven years--a work of extraordinary scope and heartbreaking intimacy.

Jonathan Safran Foer has long had a passion for the work of the twentieth-century American assemblage artist Joseph Cornell. Inspired by Cornell's avian-themed boxes, and suspecting that they would be similarly inspiring to others, Foer began to write letters. The responses he received from luminaries of American writing were nothing short of astounding. Twenty writers generously contributed pieces of prose and poetry that are as eclectic as they are imaginative, and the result is a unique collaborative project and one of the most significant engagements of literature with art for many years

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, however, 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 undersexed guide dog named Sammy Davis Jr, Jr. What they are looking for seems elusive - a truth hidden behind veils of time, language and the horrors of war. What they find turns all their worlds upside down ...

Una primera novela que ha sido una revelación en EE.UU. Su autor, con precoz y arriesgada maestría, describe las peripecias de un atribulado joven judío de Nueva York que parte con destino a Ucrania, para conocer sus raíces y desvelar el misterio de su legendario abuelo. Divertida, trágica y conmovedora.

"Eating Animals" is a riveting expose which presents the gut-wrenching truth about the price paid by the environment, the government, the Third World and the animals themselves in order to put meat on our tables more quickly and conveniently than ever before. Interweaving a variety of monologues and balancing humour and suspense with informed rationalism, "Eating Animals" is as much a novelistic account of an intellectual journey as it is a fresh and open look at the ethical debate around meat-eating. Unlike most other books on the subject, "Eating Animals" also explores the possibilities for those who do eat meat to do so more responsibly, making this an important book not just for vegetarians, but for anyone who is concerned about the ramifications and significance of their chosen lifestyle.

Una imponent narració, dura, obscena i divertida, sobre la vulnerabilitat emocional i la fragilitat de les decisions. L’esperat retorn de Jonathan Safran Foer a la novel·la després de més de deu anys

Ambientata a Washington durante quattro, convulse settimane, "Eccomi" e la storia di una famiglia in crisi. Mentre Jacob, Julia e i loro tre figli sono costretti a confrontarsi con la distanza tra la vita che desiderano e quella che si trovano a vivere, arrivano da Israele alcuni parenti in visita. I tradimenti coniugali veri o presunti, le frustrazioni professionali, le ribellioni adolescenziali e le domande esistenziali dei figli, i pensieri suicidi del nonno, la malattia del cane: tutto per Jacob e Julia rimane come sospeso quando un forte terremoto colpisce il Medio Oriente, innescando una serie di reazioni a catena che portano all'invasione dello stato di Israele. Di fronte a questo scenario inatteso, tutti sono costretti a confrontarsi con scelte a cui non erano preparati, e a interrogarsi sul significato della parola casa.

Everything Is Illuminated is Jonathan Safran Foer''s bestselling novel of a search for truth,published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.The inspiration for the Liev Schreiber film, starring Elijah WoodA 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 undersexed guide dog named Sammy Davis Jr, Jr. What they are looking for seems elusive -- a truth hidden behind veils of time, language and the horrors of war.What they find turns all their worlds upside down...

acob and Julia Bloch have a problem - several problems, in fact.While they''ve been coaxing Jacob''s grandfather into a retirement home, bracing themselves for a family reunion, and struggling to keep their eldest son from being expelled, a discovery is made that risks destroying their marriage.As domestic crises multiply in the foreground, a global disaster is looming on the horizon. The Bloch family is collapsing and so is the Middle East where a catastrophic earthquake sets in motion a quickly escalating conflict - and every man, woman and child must decide where they will stand.Here I Am marks an ambitious new departure for Jonathan Safran Foer, achieving extraordinary scope and emotional resonance while maintaining the trademark inventiveness and irreverence of his much-loved previous novels. Confronting the enduring question of what it means to be human, Here I Am is a great American novel for our times, a masterpiece about how we live now.

Una primera novela que ha sido una revelación en EE.UU. Su autor, con precoz y arriesgada maestría, describe las peripecias de un atribulado joven judío de Nueva York que parte con destino a Ucrania, para conocer sus raices y desvelar el misterio de su legendario abuelo. Divertida, tragica y conmovedora.

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 undersexed guide dog named Sammy Davis Jr, Jr. What they are looking for seems elusive - a truth hidden behind veils of time, language and the horrors of war. What they find turns all their worlds upside down.

Oskar Schell, living in New York, is nine years old and precocious (his interests range from astrophysics to playing the tambourine), and all his intelligence is called into play when his father dies in the destruction of the World Trade Center. Left with an envelope containing a key and a one-word clue, Oskar tries to find out what door the key opens. In the end, he is successful, after a city-wide odyssey that also includes a mysterious man in Germany, Oskar''s grandmother, a production of HAMLET at his school, and the astrophysicist Stephen Hawking. Oskar''s tale is supplemented with the musings of some of the other characters, including his grandfather, whose description of his survival of the bombing of Dresden is an unforgettable chapter. Jonathan Safran Foer enriches his intriguing novel with the very postmodern device of illustrations--intriguing in themselves--that illuminate the story.

A writer journeys to the farmlands of eastern Europe to find Augustine, the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Passionate and marked by an indelible humanity, "Everything Is Illuminated" mines the black holes of history and is ultimately a story about searching: for people and places that no longer exist and for the tales that link past and future.

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, however, 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 undersexed guide dog named Sammy Davis Jr, Jr. What they are looking for seems elusive - a truth hidden behind veils of time, language and the horrors of war. What they find turns all their worlds upside down …

Oskar Schell es un niño de nueve años muy especial, dotado de una aguda sensibilidad y de un talento versátil, que, tras perder a su padre aquel 11 de septiembre de 2001, encuentra entre los enseres del difunto un sobre con la palabra Black escrita en el dorso y una llave en su interior. Inmediatamente el pequeño decide que esa llave resolvera el misterio del ultimo dia de su padre, explicara por que estaba en las torres, cual fue el motivo de su muerte. Empieza asi la peculiar e insolita odisea de Oskar por la herida ciudad de Nueva York en busca de todas las personas, lugares u objetos relacionados con el misterioso sobre. Al tiempo que el fantasma de su padre se dibuja en la telaraña de Manhattan, se iluminan tambien los origenes de Oskar y la historia de sus abuelos, huidos de Dresde durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. En Tan fuerte, tan cerca Jonathan Safran Foer consigue convertir la tragedia en misterio, y al contar los secretos de un hombre cuenta la historia del siglo XX. La segunda novela de Jonathan Safran Foer es todo lo que uno esperaba que fuera: ambiciosa, pirotecnica, intrigante y extraordinariamente conmovedora. Un logro excepcional. SALMAN RUSHDIE La opinion del editor: Tras la celebrada Todo esta iluminado, Jonathan Safran Foer lleva a cabo en su segunda novela la primera recreacion literaria del atentado de las torres gemelas y supera incluso la hondura y la originalidad de su opera prima.