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 and amateur detective - across New York''s five boroughs and into the jumbled lives of friends, relatives and complete strangers. 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. But will it take him any closer to, or even further from, his lost father? --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
New York Times bestsellerA Best Book of the YearLos 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"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is a miracle, a daybreak, a man on the moon. It''s so impeccably imagined, so courageously executed, so everlastingly moving and fine." -- Baltimore Sun"A funny, wise, deeply compassionate novel that will renew readers'' faith that the right book at the right time still has the power to change the world." -- O, The Oprah Magazine"Foer is definitely a new sort of literary warrior -- virtuosic, visionary, ingenious, hilarious, heartbreaking. He brings an astonishing array of firepower to the page." -- Village Voice
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JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER is the author of the novels Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and a work of nonfiction, Eating Animals.