ABSTRACT
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005a) is the second novel from New York–based author Jonathan Safran Foer. The novel focuses on nine-year-old Oskar Schell, a young boy who lost his father in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. A year later, still struggling to come to terms with his father's death, Oskar discovers a mysterious key in an envelope in his father's closet. On the back of the envelope, the word “Black” is written. This prompts Oskar to embark on a quest to find the lock in which the key fits by visiting all the New Yorkers with the surname Black.
