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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

293 Ratings

4.3

Duration
10H 54min
Language
English
Format
Category

Fiction

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 disovers 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.

© 2012 W. F. Howes Ltd (Audiobook): 9781471201066

Release date

Audiobook: 13 February 2012

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