Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Safran Foer, Jonathan

ISBN 10 : 0141012692 ISBN 13 : 9780141012698

Editeur : Penguin, 2006

Synopsis

"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".

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

New York Times bestseller

A Best Book of the Year
Los Angeles Times, Washington Post Book World, Chicago Tribune, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Rocky Mountain News

"Energetic, inventive, and ambitious . . . an uplifting myth born of the sorrows of 9/11" -- Boston Globe

"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is a miracle, a daybreak, a man on the moon. It's so impeccably imagined, so courageously executed, so everlastingly moving and fine." -- Baltimore Sun

"A funny, wise, deeply compassionate novel that will renew readers' faith that the right book at the right time still has the power to change the world." -- O, The Oprah Magazine

"Foer is definitely a new sort of literary warrior -- virtuosic, visionary, ingenious, hilarious, heartbreaking. He brings an astonishing array of firepower to the page." -- Village Voice

Biographie de l'auteur :

Jonathan Safran Foer was born in 1977. He is the author of Everything is Illuminated, which won the Guardian First Book award, and the editor of A Convergence of Birds, to be published by Hamish Hamilton in 2006.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0141012692
• ISBN 13: 9780141012698
• Reliure: Reliure inconnue
• Nombre de pages: 368