Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer

'UTTERLY ENGAGING. FROM THE VERY FIRST PAGE IT IS A HUGELY INVOLVING READ...A HEARTBREAKER: TRAGIC, FUNNY, INTENSELY MOVING' SPECTATOR 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? '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 tears' Glamour 'Pulsates with dazzling ideas and intelligent writing' The Times Literary Supplement 'It's a miracle, a daybreak, a man on the moon ... so impeccably imagined, so courageously executed, so everlastingly moving' Baltimore Sun 'Dramatically original... Safran Foer is a writer of considerable brilliance' Observer 'Beautiful prose, moving, exceptional writing' Independent on Sunday

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

In Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 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. <br /><br />Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history. What he discovers is solace in that most human quality, imagination.<br /><br />Onderstaande tekst is vertaald vanuit de originele taal<br /><br />In Extreem Luid en Ongelooflijk Dichtbij is de negenjarige Oskar Schell een uitvinder, hobby-entomoloog, liefhebber van de Franse taal, brievenschrijver, pacifist, natuurhistoricus, percussionist, romanticus, Grote Ontdekkingsreiziger, edelsmid, detective, veganist en verzamelaar van vlinders. Als zijn vader wordt gedood in de aanval van 11 september op het World Trade Centre, gaat Oskar op pad om het mysterie op te lossen van de sleutel die hij in zijn vaders kast ontdekt. De zoektocht brengt hem in de levens van vreemden verspreid over de vijf stadsdelen van New York, in de geschiedenis, naar de bombardementen van Dresden en Hiroshima, en op een reis binnenin zichzelf die hem steeds dichter naar een soort vrede brengt. <br /><br />Jonathan Safran Foer stond op als één van de meest originele schrijvers van zijn generatie met zijn bestsellerdebuut Alles is Verlicht. Nu confronteert hij met zijn humor, gevoeligheid en ontzag de trauma’s van onze recente geschiedenis. Wat hij ontdekt is troost in die meest menselijke eigenschap: verbeelding.

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