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 9/11 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 open? So 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"."