description: When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his father’s closet. Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, computer consultant, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, amateur astronomer, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, origamist, detective, vegan and collector of butterflies. When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his father’s closet. It is a search which leads him into the lives of strangers, through the five boroughs of New York, into history, to the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima, and on an inward journey which brings him ever closer to some kind of peace…
language: English
title: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
titlecomplete: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
characters: Oskar Schell
genres: Fiction, Adult Fiction, Contemporary, Young Adult, New York, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Adult, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 415972
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: HarperCollins