Oskar Schell is an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, pacifist.
This seemingly impossible task will bring Oskar into contact with survivors of all sorts of an exhilarating, affecting, often hilarious, and ultimately healing journey..
His goal is to find the lock that matches a mysterious key that belonged to his father who died in the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11.
Louis Post-Dispatch, and Rocky Mountain News Nine-year-old Oskar Schell has embarked on an urgent, secret mission that will take him through the five boroughs of New York.
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And he is on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died in the attacks on the World Trade Center.
He is nine years old.
Oskar Schell is an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, pacifist
