EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE

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 9/11Utterly engaging, hugely involving, tragic, funny and intensely moving... A heartbreaker SpectatorThe most incredible fictional nine-year-old ever created... a funny, heart-rending portrayal of a child coping with disaster. It will have you biting back the tears GlamourPulsates with dazzling ideas Times Literary SupplementIts a miracle... So impeccably imagined, so courageously executed, so everlastingly moving Baltimore SunJonathan 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... The key belonged to his father, hes sure of that. But which of New Yorks 162 million locks does it open?So begins a quest that takes Oskar - inventor, letter-writer and amateur detective - across New Yorks five boroughs and into the jumbled lives of friends, relatives and complete strangers. 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. But will it take him any closer to, or even further from, his lost father?

• Συγγραφέας: Jonathan Safran Foer
• Εκδότης: Penguin Books Ltd
• Σελίδες: 368
• Εξώφυλλο: Paperback
• Κυκλοφορία: Μάιος 2006
• ISBN: 978-0-14-101269-8