TY - BOOK ID - 137312883 TI - Extremely loud & incredibly close PY - 2018 SN - 9780241983805 0241983800 PB - London Penguin Books DB - UniCat KW - September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 KW - Fathers and sons KW - September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) KW - New York (N.Y.) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137312883 AB - Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies. When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of a key he disovers in his father's closet. It is a search which leads him into the lives of strangers, through the five boroughs of New York, into history, to the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima, and on an inward journey which brings him ever closer to some kind of peace. ER -