extremely loud and incredibly close read

When the twin towers fell, a father struggled to leave some kind of message for his family. In Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Foer once again demonstrates his ability to evoke and unravel the most personal and complex matters of the heart. His journey concludes in an emotional climax of truth, beauty, and heartbreak. As he roams the five boroughs, Oskar encounters a motley assortment of people who are all survivors in their own way. An inspired innocent, Oskar is alternately endearing, exasperating, and hilarious as he careens from Central Park to Coney Island to Harlem on his search. Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is on a mission to find the lock that matches a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. And with good reason-as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution noted, 'Jonathan Safran Foer has done something both masterful and absolutely necessary: he has written the first great novel about September 11.' Foer confronts a subject few writers have dared approach, and what he discovers is solace in that most human quality, imagination. ReviewĮxtremely Loud and Incredibly Close has been one of the most discussed, acclaimed, and debated novels in recent memory. Extemely Loud and Incredibly Close boldly approaches history and tragedy with humor, tenderness and awe. Once again Foer turns his capacious talent and vision to devastating events and finds solice in that most human quality, imagination. 'His prose is clever, challenging, willfully constructed to make you read it again and again,' said Marie Arana, in the Washington Post Book World, of Everything Is Illuminated. Rarely does a writer as young as Jonathan Foer display such virtuosity and wisdom. They are there to dig up his father's empty coffin. But now he is accompanied by the silent stranger who has been renting the spare room of his grandmother's apartment. Ultimately, Oskar ends his journey where it began, at his father's grave. Along the way, Oskar encounters a motley assortment of humanity a 103-year-old war reporter, a tour guide who never leaves the Empire State Building, lovers enraptured or scorned all survivors in their own ways. But it also travels into history, to Dresden and Hiroshima, where horrific bombings once shattered other lives. His search for the lock careens from Central Park to Coney Island to the Bronx and beyond. And he is on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died in the attacks on the World Trade Center.Īn inspired creation, Oskar is endearing, exasperating and unforgettable. Oskar Schell is an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, pacifist.

Extremely loud and incredibly close read