A new novel by the author of Everything Is Illuminated introduces Oskar Schell, the nine-year-old son of a man killed in the World Trade Center bombing who searches the city for a lock that fits a black key his father left behind. Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the …
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A new novel by the author of Everything Is Illuminated introduces Oskar Schell, the nine-year-old son of a man killed in the World Trade Center bombing who searches the city for a lock that fits a black key his father left behind. 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. Meet Oskar Schell, an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, pacifist, correspondent with Stephen Hawking and Ringo Starr. He is nine years old. And he is on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York. His mission is to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. An inspired innocent, Oskar is alternately endearing, exasperating, and hilarious as he careens from Central Park to Coney Island to Harlem on his search. Along the way he is always dreaming up inventions to keep those he loves safe from harm. What about a birdseed shirt to let you fly away? What if you could actually hear everyone's heartbeat? His goal is hopeful, but the past speaks a loud warning in stories of those who've lost loved ones before. As Oskar roams New York, he encounters a motley assortment of humanity who are all survivors in their own way. He befriends a 103-year-old war reporter, a tour guide who never leaves the Empire State Building, and lovers enraptured or scorned. Ultimately, Oskar ends his journey where it began, at his father's grave. But now he is accompanied by the silent stranger who has been renting the spare room of his grandmother's apartment. They are there to dig up his father's empty coffin
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Extremely loud and incredibly close
Copertina rigida, 326 pagine
lingua English
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- ISBN:
- 978-0-618-32970-0ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 57319795
Tan Fuerte, Tan Cerca
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- ISBN:
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- Numero OCLC:
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Extremely loud & incredibly close
326, pagine
lingua English
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- ISBN:
- 978-0-241-95760-8ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 867518782
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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Pubblicato il 2006 da Penguin Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-102518-6ISBN copiato!
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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- ISBN:
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Extremt högt & otroligt nära
Brossura
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- ISBN:
- 978-978-917-001-2ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 185428699
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
326, pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato da Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-618-71165-9ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 66462783
Extrem laut & unglaublich nah
436, pagine
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- ISBN:
- 978-3-596-16922-1ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 180117992
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
368, pagine
Pubblicato il 2006 da Houghton Mifflin Company, Penguin.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-101269-8ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 64311389
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Copertina rigida
Pubblicato da Brand: Kiepenheuer Witsch GmbH, Kiepenheuer & Witsch GmbH.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-462-03607-7ISBN copiato!
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
326, pagine
Pubblicato il 2011 da Mariner Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-547-73502-3ISBN copiato!
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
audio cd
Pubblicato da Recorded Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4193-2879-4ISBN copiato!
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Pubblicato da Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-241-95761-5ISBN copiato!
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lingua French
Pubblicato il 2007 da Contemporary French Fiction.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-7578-0522-0ISBN copiato!
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
eBook
lingua English
Pubblicato il 2009 da Penguin Group UK.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-190989-9ISBN copiato!
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