EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE

In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key . . .The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open?So begins a quest that takes Oskar - inventor , letter-writer and amateur detective - across New York's five boroughs and into the jumbled lives of friends, relatives and complet e strangers. He gets heavy boots, he gives himself little bruises and he inches ever nearer to the heart of a family mystery that st retches ...[Read more]