Everything Is Illuminated cover art

Everything Is Illuminated

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
1 credit a month to buy any audiobook in our entire collection.
Access to thousands of additional audiobooks and Originals from the Plus Catalogue.
Member-only deals & discounts.
Auto-renews at $16.45/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Everything Is Illuminated

By: Jonathan Safran Foer
Narrated by: Jeff Woodman, Scott Shina
Try Premium Plus free

$16.45 per month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for $26.99

Buy Now for $26.99

About this listen

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, read by Jeff Woodman and Scott Shina.

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.

©2003 Jonathan Safran Foer (P)2016 Penguin Audio Biographical Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Magical Realism Fantasy Biography Magic War
All stars
Most relevant  
I'm a huge audio book fan I'm not sure that narration does this lovely story justice.
if you have the time, get this one on paper and soak it in.

A Lovely Story, but think it should be read

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Just listen to this. I can't recommend it Premium novel. Very very very very very excellent.

One of my all time favorite books

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I wasn't expecting anything from it, I just picked it up and started reading... and only when I finished it did I realise how much it changed my perspective on love and life and people and ww2.

Instant new favourite!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
A story that has been told a thousand times before by far greater writers. Grating artsy writing style that tries SO hard and falls completely flat. Also full of stereotypes, thinly veiled racism and gratuitous, pointless sexual descriptions that sound like they were written by a 12 year old. First novel about the atrocities of WWII that I managed to find banal.

Wish I hadn’t wasted my time.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Was it just me or did anyone else understand this, the story? is so hard to follow the time line. And worst of all some lines just keep repeating ,some lines just keep repeating, some lines just keep repeating, some lines just keep repeating.

What the?

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.