Jonathan Safran Foer

La primera novela de Jonathan Safran FoerTodo está iluminadocuenta el viaje de un joven judío norteamericano en busca de sus orígenes, que le llevará a Ucrania para encontrar a la mujer que supuestamente salvo a su abuelo de los nazis. Le acompañaran en el periplo Alex, un joven ucraniano, su abuelo y su perro, en un recorrido tan comico como tragico, que evidencia el estrecho lazo que une el pasado al presente.

Una provocadora y apasionante exploración de que comemos, por que y sus consecuencias. Pocas veces un libro ha dado tanto que hablar.Cuando Jonathan Safran Foer iba a convertirse en padre empezó a preocuparse por la forma mas responsable de alimentar a su hijo. ¿Cuales son las consecuencias de comer animales para la salud? ¿Cuales los efectos economicos, sociales y ambientales de hacerlo? Mezclando con maestria filosofia, literatura, ciencia y la narracion de sus propias aventuras detectivescas, Comer animales explora el origen de nuestros habitos alimenticios: desde las costumbres nacionales a las tradiciones familiares, pasando por una atroz falta de informacion. Con una profunda perspicacia, un equilibrado sentido etico y una creatividad desbordante, Safran Foer revela la espeluznante verdad sobre el precio pagado por el medio ambiente, el Tercer Mundo y los animales para que podamos tener carne en nuestras mesas.

This is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis. Over the course of three weeks in present-day Washington DC, three sons watch their parents'' marriage falter and their family home fall apart.God asked Abraham to sacrifice his beloved son Isaac, and Abraham replied obediently, ''Here I am''.This is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis. Over the course of three weeks in present-day Washington DC, three sons watch their parents'' marriage falter and their family home fall apart. Meanwhile, a larger catastrophe is engulfing another part of the world: a massive earthquake devastates the Middle East, sparking a pan-Arab invasion of Israel. With global upheaval in the background and domestic collapse in the foreground, Jonathan Safran Foer asks us - what is the true meaning of home? Can one man ever reconcile the conflicting duties of his many roles - husband, father, son? And how much of life can a person bear?

"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.

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.

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...

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.

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 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

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.

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 ...

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, 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.

Nine-year-old Oskar Blum is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies, Beatles memorabilia, state quarters, miniature cacti and coral. When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center, his inward journey towards some kind of peace takes him on an odyssey through the five boroughs of New York, as he attempts to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his father''s closet

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.