![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Reading a book from the point of view of a little boy who has lost his father because of the tragedy that was (and is) 9/11 is really heartbreaking and confronting. I was quite young when 9/11 happened, but I remember it, and I’ve seen how the world has changed after it. But will it take him any closer to, or even further from, his lost father?Įxtremely Loud & Incrediby Close by Jonathan Safran Foer is one of the most extraordinary books I’ve ever read, for a couple of reasons.įirstly, it’s the only book I’ve read about the aftermath of 9/11 and, specifically, the aftermath for a family who has lost a member of it because of the disaster. ![]() 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. 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. But which of New York’s 162 million locks does it open? The key belonged to his father, he’s sure of that. In 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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