Jonathan Safran Foer - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

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Hardback - Used

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4.0/5 Goodreads

Synopsis
Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur ento- mologist, computer consultant, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, amateur astronomer, natural historian, percus- sionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, origamist, detective, vegan and collector of butterflies.
When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of a key he discov- ers 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...