Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close: A Novel

Jonathan Safran Foer

Sep 2013 · Sold by HarperCollins

About this ebook

A funny, uplifting novel about a boy's journey through New York in the aftermath of September 11th from one of today's most celebrated writers.

Nine-year-old Oskar Schell embarks on an urgent, secret mission that will take him through the five boroughs of New York. His goal is to find the lock that matches a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11. This seemingly impossible task will bring Oskar into contact with survivors of all sorts of an exhilarating, affecting, often hilarious, and ultimately healing journey. With humor, tenderness, and awe, Jonathan Safran Foer confronts the traumas of our country's difficult history.

Ratings and reviews

This book has such crazy writing that is not organized in any specific fashion. You never know anyone's real age at any one point in the book. The author just came up with a bunch of ideas the characters have that make no sense. Don't have kids read it either, because apparently nine year olds think like adults when it comes to sex. The dialouge was so often just a whole crap load of quotation marks with no way to distinguish who is talking. By the end of the paragraph you are just confused. Also, it would help to check each chapter name before reading it so you don't go into it thinking you are reading Oskar's point of view rather than his grandmother's. Have fun with this one.

On a Hazy afternoon and truck gets stole...and nobody likes getting tricked in a Trap by somebody they think cares and loves them..And especially their kid....When you trust and voluntarily let someone care for your kid ..and they abduct her mykid you better get an American guy like ken to step in..Especially when you got a mother like Jeanette it makes things real hard...that's what dfcs is for to protect from harm..its OK to stick up for pretty girls. Ginger needed childcare assistance. they failed.

This is a beautifully written book. It is inventive in both its content and format. As an avid reader and humanist, it was so interesting to look into the mind of someone who sees the world in its googolplex of facets; someone who got to the core of incredibly difficult subjects including 9/11, the bombing of Dresden, and Hiroshima, from the eyes of a child, a mother, a Holocaust survivor. I could feel my mind open as I read it. I felt hope at its end. Thank you to Mr. Foer.

About the author

JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER is the author of the novels Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and a work of nonfiction, Eating Animals. His books have won numerous awards and have been translated into 36 languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.