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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

by Jonathan Safran Foer

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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books and Fiction.

Nineyearold 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 h...

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