Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Written by Jonathan Safran Foer

Narrated by Multiple Narrators

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 disovers 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
• Publisher: W. F. Howes Ltd
• Release date: Feb 13, 2012
• ISBN: 9781471201066

Jonathan Safran Foer

JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER is the author of the novels Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and a work of nonfiction, Eating Animals. His books have won numerous awards and have been translated into 36 languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Reviews for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

[CHG · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Beautiful and very funny in places, yet devastatingly sad at the same time. I cried so much.

[Lucia Garcia · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Written in a very slow flow, you can feel this kid's pain, but like also talking with a kid, it has a very pronounced roundabout way, which prevented me from connecting with the characters and the plot. Everything was extremely this or incredibly the other, I know it is the title, but I don't need to read it every other page.