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When he shows the envelope to a woman in the hobby shop, She tells him that it is a common surname.

He starts to ask some people whether they know something about the key or the word Black. The key doesn’t look familiar to Oscar, it’s larger and longer than a normal key. When Oscar cleans up the broken vase he finds an envelope with on the front the word Black and inside a strange key. One day a blue vase fell of the cupboard into shards when he was searching. He loves to listen to his dad’s voice and search through his belongings. Oscar has hidden the tape with these records, so his mother doesn’t get angry because he didn’t answer the phone. Before Thomas died he called several times to his house, no one took the phone so he left some messages behind on the answering machine. His grandfather left her when she was pregnant of his dad. Now he lives with his mom and her new friend Ron, he doesn’t like him at all. Oscar lost his dad, Thomas, with the horrible attack at the World Trade Center. 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.The wonderful book Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close immediately starts with the thoughts of Oscar Shell, a 9 year old boy. 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 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 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. The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is Jonathan Safran Foer's heartrending New York novelIn a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key.

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