num_pages: 326
description: 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, he's sure of that. 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. 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 further from, his lost father?
language: English
title: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
titlecomplete: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
characters: Oskar Schell
genres: New York, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Young Adult, Literature, Adult, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 415956
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: Mariner Books Classics