num_pages: 12
description: 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 he left behind, Oskar discovers much more than he could have imagined.
language: English
title: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
titlecomplete: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
characters: Oskar Schell
genres: Fiction, Adult Fiction, Contemporary, Young Adult, New York, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Adult, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 415962
places: New York City, New York, Dresden
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Prix des libraires du Québec
category: Lauréats hors Québec, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Luisterboek Award, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: LovelyBooks Leserpreis
category: Allgemeine Literatur
publisher: Recorded Books