Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Book

When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks, nine-year-old Oskar Schell sets out to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his father's closet. It leads him into the lives of strangers, into history, to the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima, and on an inward journey which brings him ever closer to some kind of peace.Read More

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    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 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.

  • 0141012692
  • 9780141012698
  • Jonathan Safran Foer
  • 25 May 2006
  • Penguin
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 368

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