Everything is Illuminated & Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

He gets heavy boots, he gives himself little bruises and he inches ever nearer to the heart of a family mystery that stretches back fifty years. recent history in his exhilarating second novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open?So begins a quest that takes Oskar - inventor, letter-writer and amateur detective - across New York's five boroughs and into the jumbled lives of friends, relatives and complete strangers. Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foers stunning debut. The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. Jonathan Safran Foer, born in 1977, came out swinging in 2002, with the publication of his astounding. after Everything is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is just a knock-off. So impeccably imagined, so courageously executed, so everlastingly moving' Baltimore Sun'Jonathan Safran Foer is a writer of considerable brilliance' Observer In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key. It will have you biting back the tears' Glamour'Pulsates with dazzling ideas' Times Literary Supplement'It's a miracle. a funny, heart-rending portrayal of a child coping with disaster. A heartbreaker' Spectator'The most incredible fictional nine-year-old ever created. THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERADAPTED INTO A FEATURE FILM WITH TOM HANKSFrom the critically acclaimed author of Here I Am, Everything is Illuminated and We are the Weather - a heartrending and unforgettable novel set in the aftermath of the 9/11'Utterly engaging, hugely involving, tragic, funny and intensely moving. A monumental new novel from the bestselling author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foers Here I Am. Everything is Illuminated explores intergenerational trauma with dual perspectives as a device, in the tradition of Virginia Woolf's Mrs.

Everything is Illuminated & Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer