Book description
'It's a miracle, a daybreak, a man on the moon . . . so impeccably
imagined, so courageously executed, so everlastingly moving'-Baltimore Sun
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.
Jonathan Safran Foer was born in 1977. He is the author of Everything
is Illuminated, which won the Guardian First Book award, and the editor
of A Convergence of Birds, to be published by Hamish Hamilton in 2006.
