Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Author: Foer, Jonathan Safran
ISBN: 9780141012698
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 10 May 2006
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback / softback
The wildly inventive and powerfully moving follow-up to the acclaimed and award-winning Everything Is Illuminated.
Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies.
When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of a key he disovers 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.
ISBN: 9780141012698
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 10 May 2006
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback / softback
The wildly inventive and powerfully moving follow-up to the acclaimed and award-winning Everything Is Illuminated.
Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies.
When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of a key he disovers 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.
