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Author: Jonathan Safran Foer
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Genre: Fiction
Released: 01 April, 2006
ISBN: 9780618711659

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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Synopsis

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.

About the author

Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer (born 1977) is an American writer best known for his 2002 novel Everything Is Illuminated, as well as Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005) and Eating Animals (2009). He teaches creative writing at New York University. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, the novelist Nicole Krauss, and their son, Sasha.