Jonathan Safran Foer "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Nine-year-old Oskar
Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer,
pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer,
jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies. When his
father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade
Centre, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his
father's closet. It is a search which leads him into the lives of
strangers, through the five boroughs of New York, into history, to the
bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima, and on an inward journey which brings
him ever closer to some kind of peace.
Paperback, 326 pages