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Extremely loud & incredibly close
by Jonathan Safran Foer
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Used
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Luddenham, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is a 2005 novel by Jonathan Safran Foer. The book's narrator is a nine-year-old boy named Oskar Schell. In the story, Oskar discovers a key in a vase that belonged to his father, a year after he is killed in the September 11 attacks.
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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- Bookseller
- Petes Loved Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Product_1377
- Title
- Extremely loud & incredibly close
- Author
- Jonathan Safran Foer
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- Crows Nest, NSW
- Date Published
- 2005
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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