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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is a 2005 novel by Jonathan Safran Foer. The book's narrator is a nine-year-old boy named Oskar Schell. 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.
- Jonathan Safran Foer, Helen Holwill, Matt Rota
- 2005
Oskar Schell is our very precocious, smart-as-a-whip nine-year-old narrator and protagonist. He's interested in almost everything, and is forever writing letters to famous people to share his ideas... Grandma. The Last Little EnvelopeOskar's grandmother is nurturing and devoted to Oskar.
A list of all the characters in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close characters include: Oskar Schell, Thomas Schell Sr. (the renter), Grandma.
Oskar’s grandpa is one of the novel’s main narrators, although his narration is done largely through writing in the form of letters and pages in his “daybooks.” This is because Grandpa is mute—an aftereffect of surviving the ghastly Dresden firebombing during World War II, in which Grandpa lost his lover, Anna, and their unborn child.
Thomas Sr. Oskar's Grandpa, Thomas Schell, Sr., is a survivor of the Dresden bombing of 1945, wife to Grandma, former boyfriend to Anna, and father to Thomas Schell Jr. He is one of the novel's three narrators, and tells of losing his speech and then living a life of fear that led him to abandon his unborn son.
- Jonathan Safran Foer
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is Foer’s second novel, and he expands upon his method of braided storylines by adding visual materials and complex narration. Since Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Foer has written in a wide variety of genres.
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