Everything Is Illuminated

novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
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Everything Is Illuminated

Summary

Everything Is Illuminated is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (234 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Everything Is Illuminated authored Jonathan Safran Foer[3].
  • Everything Is Illuminated authored Hans-Jacob Nilsson[4].
  • Everything Is Illuminated's instance of is recorded as literary work[5].
  • Everything Is Illuminated was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt[6].
  • Everything Is Illuminated is associated with the magic realism movement[7].
  • Everything Is Illuminated's genre is family saga[8].
  • Everything Is Illuminated's genre is magic realist fiction[9].
  • Everything Is Illuminated's language of work or name is recorded as English[10].
  • Everything Is Illuminated's country of origin is recorded as United States[11].
  • Everything Is Illuminated was published on +2002-04-16T00:00:00Z[12].
  • Everything Is Illuminated's has edition or translation is recorded as ha-Kol Muʼar[13].
  • Everything Is Illuminated's narrative location is recorded as Ukraine[14].
  • Everything Is Illuminated's main subject is The Holocaust[15].
  • Everything Is Illuminated's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Everything Is Illuminated'}[16].
  • Everything Is Illuminated's has characteristic is recorded as debut novel[17].
  • Everything Is Illuminated's form of creative work is recorded as novel[18].

Body

Authorship and Creation

Authored works include Jonathan Safran Foer[3], a writer[19], b. 1977[20], of United States[21], awarded the Berlin Prize[22], specialised in creative and professional writing[23] and Hans-Jacob Nilsson[4], a translator[24], b. 1949[25], of Sweden[26], awarded the De Nios översättarpris[27]. Everything Is Illuminated was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt[6].

Publication

Everything Is Illuminated was released on +2002-04-16T00:00:00Z[12]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[10]. Genres include family saga[8] and magic realist fiction[9].

Subject and Themes

Everything Is Illuminated's main subject is The Holocaust[15]. It is associated with the magic realism movement[7].

Why It Matters

Everything Is Illuminated ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (234 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28]

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  1. [19] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [20] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [21] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [22] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [23] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [24] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [25] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [26] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [27] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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