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: novel
โ Scribed by Foer, Jonathan Safran
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt;Public Library Interlink
- Year
- 2013;2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 3 MB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
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 left behind, Oskar discovers much more than he could have imagined.
โฆ Subjects
A Novel
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