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Item Details
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EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE
A NOVEL |
| By: |
Jonathan Safran Foer |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£14.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
024114213X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780241142134 |
| Publisher: |
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
2 June, 2005 |
| Pages: |
368 |
| Description: |
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, he sets out to solve the mystery of a key found in his father's closet. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
Illustrations (some col.) |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Hamish Hamilton Ltd |
| Prizes: |
Winner of V&A Illustration Awards: Book Illustration 2005.
Shortlisted for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2007. |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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