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Alex's 'Everything Is Illuminated'

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Everything is Illuminated is a novel that is written in three parts. The first part is written by Alex he lives in Odessa, Ukraine and he is a translator (a very bad one). He writes about their quest to find a girl named Augustine in a town called Trachimbrod. The second part is written by Jonathan he is a US citizen. He writes about the history of the shtetl called Trachimbrod, mainly focusing on a girl named Brod. He writes about the life of Safran and Brod and how he rescued Brod from the wreckage of a flipped wagon when she was a baby. The town is destroyed and only Safran manages to escape but due to the help of Augustine. The last part of the book is composed of letters that Alex and Jonathan write to each other. Jonathan sends Alex parts
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