THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ADAPTED INTO A FEATURE FILM WITH TOM HANKS From the critically acclaimed author of Here I Am, Everything is Illuminated and We are the Weather - a heartrending and unforgettable novel set in the aftermath of the 9/11 '
Utterly engaging, hugely involving, tragic, funny and intensely moving...
But will it take him any closer to, or even further from, his lost father?.
He gets heavy boots, he gives himself little bruises and he inches ever nearer to the heart of a family mystery that stretches back fifty years.
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 complete strangers.
The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that.
So impeccably imagined, so courageously executed, so everlastingly moving'
Baltimore Sun '
Jonathan Safran Foer is a writer of considerable brilliance'
Observer In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key...
It will have you biting back the tears'
Glamour '
Pulsates with dazzling ideas'
Times Literary Supplement '
It's a miracle... a funny, heart-rending portrayal of a child coping with disaster.
A heartbreaker'
Spectator '
The most incredible fictional nine-year-old ever created...
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ADAPTED INTO A FEATURE FILM WITH TOM HANKS From the critically acclaimed author of Here I Am, Everything is Illuminated and We are the Weather - a heartrending and unforgettable novel set in the aftermath of the 9/11 '
Utterly engaging, hugely involving, tragic, funny and intensely moving..
