Books by Jonathan Safran Foer

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERADAPTED INTO A FEATURE FILM WITH TOM HANKSFrom the critically acclaimed author of Here I Am, Everything is Illuminated and We are the Weather - a heartrending and unforgettable novel set in the aftermath of the 9/11'Utterly engaging, hugely involving, tragic, funny and intensely moving... A heartbreaker' Spectator'The most incredible fictional nine-year-old ever created... a funny, heart-rending portrayal of a child coping with disaster. It will have you biting back the tears' Glamour'Pulsates with dazzling ideas' Times Literary Supplement'It's a miracle... So impeccably imagined, so courageously executed, so everlastingly moving' Baltimore Sun'Jonathan Safran Foer is a writer of considerable brilliance' Observer In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key...The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open?So begins a quest that takes Oskar - inventor, letter-writer and amateur detective - across New York's five boroughs and into the jumbled lives of friends, relatives and complete strangers. He gets heavy boots, he gives himself little bruises and he inches ever nearer to the heart of a family mystery that stretches back fifty years. But will it take him any closer to, or even further from, his lost father?

NOW A FEATURE DOCUMENTARY FILM NARRATED BY NATALIE PORTMANFrom the bestselling author of the essential new 2019 book on animal agriculture and climate crisis: We are the WeatherDiscover Jonathan Safran Foer's eye-opening and life-changing account of the meat we eat'Should be compulsory reading. A genuine masterwork. Read this book. It will change you' Time Out'Shocking, incandescent, brilliant' The Times'Everyone who eats flesh should read this book' Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall'Universally compelling. Jonathan Safran Foer's book changed me' Natalie Portman 'Gripping [and] original. A brilliant synthesis of argument, science and storytelling. One of the finest books ever written on the subject of eating animals' Times Literary Supplement'Horrifying, eloquent, timely' Spectator'If you eat meat and fish, you should read this book. Even if you don't, you should. It might bring the beginning of a change of heart about all living things' Joanna Lumley Eating Animals is the most original and urgent book on the subject of food written this century. It will change the way you think, and change the way you eat. For good.Whether you're flirting with veganuary, trying to cut back on animal consumption, or a lifelong meat-eater, you need to read this book.

Som så mange andre svingede Jonathan Safran Foer som helt ung mellem at være skiftevis altædende og vegetar. Men da han selv skulle være far og dermed snart ville komme til at tage nogle vigtige beslutninger omkring mad på sit barns vegne blev hele spørgsmålet pludselig mere akut påtrængende. Foer besluttede derfor selv at forsøge at finde svarene. En søgen der blandt andet fik ham til at snige sig ind på industrielle fjerkræfarme dissekere de følelsesladede ingredienser fra barndommens middagsborde samt undersøge nogle af sine mest instinktive sondringer imellem rigtigt og forkert. Med sin sammenfletning af filosofi litteratur videnskab og personlige erindringer samt et større detektivisk arbejde griber Foer fat om de mange historier vi benytter for at retfærdiggøre vores spisevaner. Om at spise dyr er en på en gang oplysende generøs og stærkt animerende bog men skrevet med en forsonende humor: En bog der med garanti vil få enhver der læser den til i al fremtid at betragte deres middagstallerken i et andet lys

Den tyveårige ukrainer Alexander Perkhov bliver bestilt til at være oversætter og guide for en ung amerikaner ved navn Jonathan Safran Foer. Foer er kommet til Lvov med et gammelt fotografi i hånden for at søge efter byen Trachimbrod og den kvinde som reddede hans morfar fra nazisterne.I et vrag af en bil og med Alex´ halvblinde farfar som chauffør og dennes overerotiske hund Sammy Davis Junior Junior rejser de rundt i øde øststatslandskaber på sporet af den tabte tid. Rejsen beskrives af Alex på et gebrokkent engelsk som han har lært sig ved hjælp af en håbløst forældet synonymordbog. Parallelt hører vi Jonathans beretning om Trachimbrod en bykrønike som begynder i 1791 hvor byen får sit navn og ender i 1941 da nazisterne tilintetgør alt og alle. Disse to spor flettes til sidst sammen i et krydspunkt som får afgørende betydning for dem alle tre.

Den amerikanske forfatter Jonathan Safran Foer kaster sig med sin nye bog over et af tidens mest presserende emner: klimaforandringer. Vi hører hele tiden, at tiden er ved at løbe ud, at klimakrisen kan føre til vores udryddelse, men alligevel – eller måske netop derfor – er det svært at stille noget op for det enkelte menneske. Eller er det? Ifølge Safran Foer kan vi indlede vores kamp mod klimaforandringerne ved hjælp af noget så simpelt som kniv og gaffel. Og man behøver ikke at tage en kold tyrker fra al kød. Det hele begynder nemlig med, hvad vi spiser – og ikke spiser – til morgenmad.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer, read by Ari Fliakos. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Everything is Illuminated and We are the Weather - a rich and moving novel about modern family lives and the ties that bind Towering and glorious: a tale of social, familial and marital breakdown and the End of the World. The funniest literary novel I have ever read The Times A rich, beautifully written, ambitious and grandly moving novel, which looks both at the world at large and at the deepest concerns of individual lives Evening Standard Lays bare the interior of a marriage with such intelligence and deep feeling and pitiless clarity, its impossible to read it and not re-examine your own family Time Astonishing. So sad and so funny and so wry Scotland on Sunday Jacob and Julia Bloch are about to be tested . . . By Jacobs grandfather, who wont go quietly into a retirement home. By the family reunion, that everyone is dreading. By their sons heroic attempts to get expelled. And by the sexting affair that will rock their marriage. A typical modern American family, the Blochs cling together even as they are torn apart. Which is when catastrophe decides to strike . . . Confronting the enduring question of what it means to be human with inventiveness, playfulness and compassion, Here I Am is a great American family novel for our times, an unmissable read for fans of Jonathan Franzen and Michael Chabon, a masterpiece about how we live now.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, read by Jeff Woodman and Scott Shina. THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING NOVEL ADAPTED INTO A FEATURE FILM WITH ELIJAH WOOD From the bestselling author of Here I Am, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and We are the Weather - a hilarious, life-affirming and utterly original novel about the search for truth Gripping, hilariously funny and deeply serious. An astonishing feat of writing The Times One of the most impressive novel debuts of recent years Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement A first novel of startling originality Jay McInerney, Observer It seems hard to believe that such a young writer can have such a deep understanding of both comedy and tragedy Erica Wagner, The Times A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Unfortunately, he is aided in his quest by Alex, a translator with an uncanny ability to mangle English into bizarre new forms; a blind old man haunted by memories of the war; and an undersexed guide dog named Sammy Davis Jr, Jr. What they are looking for seems elusive -- a truth hidden behind veils of time, language and the horrors of war. What they find turns all their worlds upside down...