![]() Nicole Aragi, his agent, says, The novel began life as Zelnik, told from the point of view of an old man looking back through relics. He is the author of Everything is Illuminated, which won the National Jewish Book Award and the Guardian First Book award, and Eating Animals, and the editor of A Convergence of Birds. Now the finished product is considerably more solemn. Moving, literary and innovative, perfect for fans of Lorrie Moore and Nicole Krauss, Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close was made into a major film starring Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock, released in 2012. But will it take him any closer to, or even further from, his lost father? ![]() ![]() He gets heavy boots, he gives himself little bruises and he inches ever nearer to the heart of a family mystery that stretches back fifty years. So begins a quest that takes Oskar - inventor, letter-writer and amateur detective - across New York's five boroughs and into the jumbled lives of friends, relatives and complete strangers. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open? The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is Foer’s second novel, and he expands upon his method of braided storylines by adding visual materials and complex narration. ![]() In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key. ![]()
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