Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: Dec 12, 2011
Words:
90872
Flesch:
101.42
DDC:
813.6
FAST Tags:
New York (State)--New York,
Loss (Psychology),
Fathers and sons,
Gifted persons
LCC:
PS3606.O38
LC Genre:
Literature>American and Canadian>21st Century
Book Details
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Description:
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.