Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Penguin
01 May 2006

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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.

By: Jonathan Safran Foer
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 320g
ISBN: 9780141012698
ISBN 10: 0141012692
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 01 May 2006
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

[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.