But it also travels into history to Dresden and Hiroshima where horrific bombings once shattered other lives. His search for the lock careens from Central Park to Coney Island to the Bronx and beyond. An inspired creation Oskar is endearing exasperating and unforgettable. And he is on an urgent secret search through the five boroughs of New York to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father who died in the attacks on the World Trade Center. 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.Oskar Schell is an inventor Francophile tambourine player Shakespearean actor jeweler pacifist. 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. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open?
The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key. 'Jonathan Safran Foer is a writer of considerable brilliance' Observer So impeccably imagined, so courageously executed, so everlastingly moving' Baltimore Sun 'Pulsates with dazzling ideas' Times Literary Supplement It will have you biting back the tears' Glamour a funny, heart-rending portrayal of a child coping with disaster. 'The most incredible fictional nine-year-old ever created.
'Utterly engaging, hugely involving, tragic, funny and intensely moving. ADAPTED INTO A FEATURE FILM WITH TOM HANKSįrom 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
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