Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Author(s): Jonathan Safran Foer

Fiction

When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his father's closet. Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, computer consultant, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, amateur astronomer, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, origamist, detective, vegan and collector of butterflies. When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his father's closet. It is a search which leads him into the lives of strangers, through the five boroughs of New York, into history, to the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima, and on an inward journey which brings him ever closer to some kind of peace...

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Shortlisted for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2007.

"[A] dazzling literary high-wire act . . . brilliant . . . The payoff is extraordinary: a fearless, acrobatic, ultimately haunting effort to combine inspired mischief with a grasp of the unthinkable."

Jonathan Safran Foer was born in 1977. He is the author of Everything is Illuminated, which won the Guardian First Book award, and the editor of A Convergence of Birds, to be published by Hamish Hamilton in 2006.

General Fields

  • : 9780141012698
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : 0.335
  • : May 2006
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 25mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : December 2013
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Jonathan Safran Foer
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : 813.6
  • : very good
  • : 368
  • : Modern fiction
  • : illustrations