Oskar’s search ends in a tragic meeting that is, as Oskar would say, also beautiful and true. In addition to introducing the usual motley characters that populate any big city, the story wanders far afield to the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima. Foer has joined writers such as Ian McEwen, Patrick McGrath, Russell Banks and Michael Cunningham by drawing the attacks into his literary world so that the rest of us may begin to digest the gruesome, the heartbreaking and the unthinkable.Įxtremely Loud and Incredibly Close follows Oskar Schell, a compulsively curious nine-year-old who is on a quest to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died on September 11. There is no subject larger in contemporary western consciousness, or political landscape, than September 11. This spring marked the arrival of his much-anticipated follow-up novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. The trip resulted in his first novel, Everything is Illuminated, an international bestseller that was made into a film directed by Liev Schreiber and starring Elijah Wood, which is due in theatres on September 16. In 1999, Jonathan Safran Foer traveled to the Ukraine to research his grandfather’s life. Perhaps the same could be said of his artistic ambitions. N o one could accuse Jonathan Safran Foer of being a miniaturist his books grope at large themes and big stories.
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