Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is Jonathan Safran Foer&s heartrending New York novel In a vase in a closet a couple of years after his father died in 911 nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key The key belonged to his father he&s sure of that But which of New York&s 162 million locks does it openso begins a quest that takes Oskar
- inventor letter-writer & amateur detective
- across New York&s five boroughs & into the jumbled lives of friends relatives & complete strangers He gets heavy boots he gives himself little bruises & he inches ever nearer to the heart of a family mystery that stretches back fifty years But will it take him any closer to or even further from his lost father? Moving literary & innovative perfect for fans of Lorrie Moore & Nicole Krauss Jonathan Safran Foer&s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close was made into a major film starring Tom Hanks & Sandra Bullock released in 2012 Jonathan Safran Foer was born in 1977 He is the author of Everything is Illuminated which won the National Jewish Book Award & the Guardian First Book award & Eating Animals & the editor of A Convergence of Birds