Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (or Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close) is a novel written by Jonathan Safran Foer. Released in 2005, it tells of a young boy discovering a key left behind by his dead father.
Characters[]
- Oskar Schell
- Linda Schell
- Oskar's grandmother
- Mr. A. Black
- Thomas Schell, Sr.
- Anna
- Abby Black
- Thomas Schell
- Stan
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Publisher's summary[]
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?
See also[]
| Title | Author | Release date | Significance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Falling Man | Don DeLillo | 2007 | A novel whose plot also revolves around 9/11 |
| Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut | 1969 | A novel which similarly discusses the firebombing of Dresden |
| The View from Mrs. Thompson's | David Foster Wallace | 2001 | An essay discussing 9/11 |
| The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Mark Haddon | 2003 | A novel with a similar protagonist |
| Bleeding Edge | Thomas Pynchon | 2013 | A novel that features 9/11 |
| The Suffering Channel | David Foster Wallace | 2004 | A novella whose plot is set somewhat around 9/11 |
| The Hour I First Believed | Wally Lamb | 2008 | A novel whose plot is based around a similar American tragedy |
| The Reluctant Fundamentalist | Mohsin Hamid | 2007 | A novel whose stories and themes are based around the post-9/11 world |
See also[]
- Wikipedia
- Goodreads