Foer, Jonathan S: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is Jonathan Safran Foer's heartrending New York novel 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 even further from, his lost father? Moving, literary and innovative, perfect for fans of Lorrie Moore and Nicole Krauss, Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close was made into a major film starring Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock, released in 2012. Jonathan Safran Foer was born in 1977. He is the author of Everything is Illuminated, which won the National Jewish Book Award and the Guardian First Book award, and Eating Animals, and the editor of A Convergence of Birds. Autor : Jonathan Safran Foer, Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies. When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre, 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.Druh sortimentu : Kniha, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jazyk : Angličtina, Počet stran : neuvedeno Der neue Roman des preisgekrönten Autors von Everything is Illuminated: die originelle, skurrile und berührende Geschichte eines Jungen, dessen Vater bei den Anschlägen vom 11. September getötet wurde, und der nun auf der Suche nach Erinnerungen und nach innerem Frieden durch die Straßen von New York streift. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer z kategorie Knihy | Cizojazyčná literatura | English literature | Fiction and Literature od Penguin Books naleznete ne e-shopu KnihyDobrovsky.cz!