![]() ![]() ![]() I would have preferred not to take sides. Dissenters dismiss him as an adolescent chatterbox, all artifice and no substance, all cuteness and no grit. In the opposite camp, Foer's fiction triggers violently allergic reactions. One side has given him a rapturous reception: confetti-showers of praise, numerous prizes including the Guardian First Book award (for Everything Is Illuminated, published when he was only 25) and, for this new novel, a fervent endorsement from Salman Rushdie ("ambitious, pyrotechnic, riddling, and above all. Just as the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center instantly epitomised the clash between Islamic fundamentalism and capitalist hubris, the writing of Jonathan Safran Foer has divided readers into vehemently opposed factions. ![]()
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