![]() ![]() ![]() The revelation about a half sister was shocking, but her mother could add nothing more about this first family. But she was stunned when her mother remarked that he had fled after Nazis had murdered everyone in his village, including his wife and daughter. She knew that her mother had wandered through Russia for three years and her father had been hidden by a Christian family. Her life, she writes, has been “haunted by the presence of absence”: the silence surrounding her family’s experiences before they arrived in the U.S. The novel had roots in his own family’s history, which Foer’s mother excavates in her moving literary debut, a recounting of her own real-life quest to uncover facts about her assorted relatives who fled from the Nazis. In the novel Everything Is Illuminated (2002), Jonathan Safran Foer invented the journey of a 20-year-old Jewish American man who travels to a town in Ukraine in search of his family’s past, particularly for the woman he believed saved his grandfather from Nazi persecution. A family’s mysteries inspire a search into a dark past. ![]()
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