![]() ![]() In Everything Is Illuminated, a young American with the same name as the author travels to the Ukraine, carrying a photograph of the woman believed in the legends of the Safran Foer family to have saved his grandad from the Nazis. But it dares to take the scenic-facetious route towards the Holocaust. So the work which has made its 24-year-old author the new star of Manhattan letters - vast advance, glossy-mag biogs, translation sales - isn't the first car on this road. ![]() ![]() Dave Eggers's A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius, which deals with the loss of both the author's parents from cancer and his subsequent guardianship of a young brother, tells of tragedy with the voice of a stand-up comic and the graphic flourishes of a cartoonist. In books, Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides treats a quintet of child deaths in one family as social comedy. ![]()
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