![]() ![]() When Foer returned to Prague, where he was studying at the time, he was inspired to write a fictional work about his experience. But Foer found neither Trachimbrod nor the woman in the photograph during his trip. Like the character Jonathan, Foer did not tell his grandmother he was returning to Ukraine. ![]() ![]() His grandfather was from a shtetl called Trachimbrod and, like Safran in the novel, he had only a photograph of the woman who supposedly saved him from the Nazis. When he was twenty-one, Foer traveled to Ukraine to research his grandfather's life. Only the core of the novel is based in fact. Foer completed a full manuscript of the book while an undergraduate at Princeton under the mentorship of Joyce Carol Oates. Everything is Illuminated is Jonathan Safran Foer's first novel. ![]()
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