Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Summary

Jonathan Safran Foer’s bestselling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated, wowed critics on its way to winning several literary prizes, including Book of the Year honors from the Los Angeles Times. It has been published in 24 countries and will soon be a major motion picture. Foer’s talent continues to shine in this hilarious and heartfelt follow-up novel.

Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is a precocious Francophile who idolizes Stephen Hawking and plays the tambourine extremely well. He’s also a boy struggling to come to terms with his father’s death in the World Trade Center attacks. As he searches New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key his father left behind, Oskar discovers much more than he could have imagined.

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is a masterfully imagined novel from an author Time hails as “a certified wunderkind.”