Unlike other books that starkly deal with the existential question, Foer delivers emotional answers of love, compassion and family that made me both smile and weep.ĮXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE cannot be truly enjoyed in audible form, as the visible and tangible aspects of the photographs and fonts give it a deeper resonance. Oskar’s guilt at not having answered his father’s last phone call just before the building he was standing atop collapsed compels him to undertake a poignant search for meaning in a seemingly cold and indifferent world. Foer adeptly allows the boy’s condition to envelop the narrator’s voice, letting the reader experience Oskar’s unique thought patterns and curious perceptions. This touching book by talented author Jonathan Safron Foer takes the definitive moment of this century-September 11, 2001-and weaves a tender tale of a nine-year-old autistic boy named Oskar coping with the death of his father in that tragedy.
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