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Published Mar 2010
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Published Dec 2009
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by Rivka Galchen
Published Apr 2009
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by Nathan Englander
Published Apr 2008
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by Kiran Desai
Published Aug 2006
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The Russian Debutante's Handbook
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by Jonathan Safran Foer
Published Mar 2003
Read ReviewsLit by passion, fear, guilt, memory, and hope, the characters in Everything Is Illuminated mine the black holes of history in this exuberant and wise, hysterically funny and deeply moving debut.
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