Foer's second novel encompasses both. More importantly, it touches a human heart. It asks (and sometimes answers) questions of love, of life, of beauty, of loneliness, of darkness, of death, of loss, of family.
Having read two novels by Mr. Foer and one by his wife, Nicole Krauss, I must admit that there's a similarity in their writing - using different voices to project events from different angles, at different times, with different backgrounds, ages, sexes, etc. What touched me the most, however is the dedications of the two novels, which I read were written at the same time:
"To Jonathan, my life"
"For Nicole, my idea of beautiful"
That's love. Or maybe that's life. Or maybe I'm still too idealistic as much as I hate to admit it. Or maybe I just love a good book.
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