8216UTTERLY ENGAGING. FROM THE VERY FIRST PAGE IT IS A HUGELY INVOLVING READ...A HEARTBREAKER TRAGIC FUNNY INTENSELY MOVING8217 SPECTATORIn a vase in a closet a... » 

8216UTTERLY ENGAGING. FROM THE VERY FIRST PAGE IT IS A HUGELY INVOLVING READ...A HEARTBREAKER TRAGIC FUNNY INTENSELY MOVING8217 SPECTATORIn a vase in a closet a couple of years after his father died in 911 nineyearold Oskar discovers a key...The key belonged to his father he8217s sure of that. But which of New York8217s 162 million locks does it open?So begins a quest that takes Oskar inventor letterwriter and amateur detective across New York8217s five boroughs and into the jumbled lives of friends relatives and complete strangers. 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 will it take him any closer to or even further from his lost father?8216The most incredible fictional nineyearold ever created... a funny heartrending portrayal of a child coping with disaster. It will have you biting back the tears8217 Glamour8216Pulsates with dazzling ideas and intelligent writing8217 The Times Literary Supplement8216It8217s a miracle a daybreak a man on the moon ... so impeccably imagined so courageously executed so everlastingly moving8217 Baltimore Sun8216Dramatically original... Safran Foer is a writer of considerable brilliance8217 Observer8216Beautiful prose moving exceptional writing8217 Independent on Sunday Nineyearold Oskar Schell is an inventor amateur entomologist Francophile letter writer pacifist natural historian percussionist romantic Great Explorer jeweTOPUK «