by Jonathan Safran Foer · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782879294810
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«Extrêmement fort et incroyablement près» is the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, published by Éditions de l'Olivier in paperback (450 pages, in French).
Oskar Schell, a nine-year-old boy, loses his father in the attacks of September 11, 2001. A year later he finds a key in an envelope with the word «Black» and travels across New York looking for the lock, convinced it is related to his father. Along the way he meets strangers and discovers his family's history.
Original title: «Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close»; the novel was originally published in 2005 and this French edition in 2006. Translation from English (United States) by Jacqueline Huet.
For reading groups and readers of contemporary and literary fiction; its plot addresses loss and memory after 9/11.
Jonathan Safran Foer is an American novelist. He is known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005), Here I Am (2016), and for his non-fiction works Eating Animals (2009) and We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (2019). He teaches creative writing at New York University.
