Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

ADAPTED INTO A FEATURE FILM WITH TOM HANKS

From the critically acclaimed author of Here I Am, Everything is Illuminated and We are the Weather - a heartrending and unforgettable novel set in the aftermath of the 9/11

Utterly engaging, hugely involving, tragic, funny and intensely moving... A heartbreakerSpectator

The most incredible fictional nine-year-old ever created... a funny, heart-rending portrayal of a child coping with disaster. It will have you biting back the tearsGlamour

Pulsates with dazzling ideasTimes Literary Supplement

Its a miracle... So impeccably imagined, so courageously executed, so everlastingly movingBaltimore Sun

Jonathan Safran Foer is a writer of considerable brillianceObserver

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, hes sure of that. But which of New Yorks 162 million locks does it open?

So begins a quest that takes Oskar - inventor, letter-writer and amateur detective - across New Yorks 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?