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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: Jonathan Safran Foer (Penguin Essentials, 77)

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: Jonathan Safran Foer (Penguin Essentials, 77)

by JonathanSafranFoer (Author)

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Synopsis

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 disovers 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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 368
 Edition: 01
 Publisher: Penguin
Published: 07 Jun 2018
ISBN 10: 0241983800
ISBN 13: 9780241983805
Book Overview: The wildly inventive and powerfully moving novel, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.

Media Reviews
Beautiful prose, moving exceptional writing * Independent on Sunday *
An aesthetically impressive artefact ... a work of considerable ambition which pulsates with dazzling ideas and intelligent writing * Times Literary Supplement *
Utterly engaging, beautifully realised. From the very page it is a hugely involving read ... a heartbreaker: tragic, funny, intensely moving * Spectator *
Author Bio
Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Eating Animals and Here I Am. He has also edited a new modern edition of the sacred Jewish Haggadah. Everything Is Illuminated won several literary prizes, including the National Jewish Book Award and the Guardian First Book Award. He edited the anthology A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell, and his stories have been published in the Paris Review, Conjunctions and the New Yorker. Jonathan Safran Foer teaches Creative Writing at New York University.