He often describes the feeling of depression as wearing heavy boots, and deals with this by giving himself bruises. Since his father's death, Oskar struggles with insomnia, panic attacks, and depression. The novel begins after the tragedy, with Oskar narrating.

Oskar Schell is a nine-year-old boy whose father, Thomas Schell, died in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. The discovery inspires Oskar to search all around New York for information about the key and closure following his father's death. In the story, Oskar discovers a key in a vase that belonged to his father, a year after he is killed in the September 11 attacks. The book's narrator is a nine-year-old boy named Oskar Schell. But now he is accompanied by the silent stranger who has been renting the spare room of his grandmother's apartment.Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is a 2005 novel by Jonathan Safran Foer. Ultimately, Oskar ends his journey where it began, at his father's grave.

He befriends a 103-year-old war reporter, a tour guide who never leaves the Empire State Building, and lovers enraptured or scorned. As Oskar roams New York, he encounters a motley assortment of humanity who are all survivors in their own way. What about a birdseed shirt to let you fly away? What if you could actually hear everyone's heartbeat? His goal is hopeful, but the past speaks a loud warning in stories of those who've lost loved ones before. Along the way he is always dreaming up inventions to keep those he loves safe from harm. An inspired innocent, Oskar is alternately endearing, exasperating, and hilarious as he careens from Central Park to Coney Island to Harlem on his search. His mission is to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. And he is on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York. Meet Oskar Schell, an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, pacifist, correspondent with Stephen Hawking and Ringo Starr. What he discovers is solace in that most human quality, imagination.

Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history. Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. A new novel by the author of Everything Is Illuminated introduces Oskar Schell, the nine-year-old son of a man killed in the World Trade Center bombing who searches the city for a lock that fits a black key his father left behind.

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