THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ADAPTED INTO A FEATURE FILM WITH TOM HANKS From the critically acclaimed author of Here I Am, Everything is Illuminated and We are the Weather — a heartrending and unforgettable novel set in the aftermath of 9/11. In a vase, discovered in a closet a couple of years after his father died in the attacks, nine-year-old Oskar finds a key. It belonged to his father — he is certain of that much. But which of New York’s 162 million locks does it open? So begins a quest that carries Oskar — inventor, letter-writer and amateur detective — across all five boroughs of New York and into the complicated lives of friends, relatives and strangers. He gets heavy boots, gives himself little bruises, and edges closer to the centre of a family mystery stretching back fifty years. But will solving it bring him nearer to his lost father — or further away? ‘Utterly engaging, hugely involving, tragic, funny and intensely moving… A heartbreaker’ Spectator ‘The most incredible fictional nine-year-old ever created… a funny, heart-rending portrayal of a child coping with disaster’ Glamour ‘Pulsates with dazzling ideas’ Times Literary Supplement ‘It’s a miracle… So impeccably imagined, so courageously executed, so everlastingly moving’ Baltimore Sun ‘Jonathan Safran Foer is a writer of considerable brilliance’ Observer
ISBN 13: 9780141012698
Author: Jonathan Safran Foer
