Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
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 . . .
Paperback | 368 pages
19.9 x 13 x 2.7 | 342g
03 Jan 2012
Penguin Books Australia
Camberwell, VIC, Australia
Edition Statement: Media Tie-in
English
0241957605
9780241957608
Condition: Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. No obvious damage to the cover. The majority of pages are undamaged with no creasing or tearing, no pencil underlining of text, and no highlighting of text. Passages, lines and words in pages 208-216 have been underlined and circled with a red pen, some pages more heavily than others, but no other underlining, circling, or writing in margins anywhere else in the book. No missing pages.