Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is a precocious Francophile who idolizes Stephen Hawking and plays the tambourine extremely well. He's also a boy struggling to come to terms with his father's death in the World Trade Center attacks. As he searches New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
โ Scribed by Foer, Jonathan Safran
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt;Public Library Interlink
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 5 MB
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
Soon to be a major motion picture, starring Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, John Goodman, and more
Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history.
Nine-year-old Oskar Schell has embarked on an urgent, secret mission that will take him through the five boroughs of New York. His goal is to find the lock that matches a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11. This seemingly impossible task will bring Oskar into contact with survivors of all sorts on an exhilarating, affecting, often hilarious, and ultimately healing journey.
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*New York Times* bestseller A Best Book of the Year *Los Angeles Times*, *Washington Post Book World*, *Chicago Tribune*, *St. Louis Post-Dispatch*, *Rocky Mountain News* Energetic, inventive, and ambitious . . . an uplifting myth born of the sorrows of 9/11. *Boston Globe* Jonathan Safran Foer
SUMMARY: 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 a
SUMMARY: 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 a
Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is a precocious Francophile who idolizes Stephen Hawking and plays the tambourine extremely well. He's also a boy struggling to come to terms with his father's death in the World Trade Center attacks. As he searches New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he
Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is a precocious Francophile who idolizes Stephen Hawking and plays the tambourine extremely well. He's also a boy struggling to come to terms with his father's death in the World Trade Center attacks. As he searches New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he