![]() 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. 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. ![]() But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open? The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. It was a difficult birth, as 6 agents rejected it, and none of the publishers in New York were interested when it was first submitted. In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key. And so his first novel, Everything is Illuminated(2002), was born. 'Jonathan Safran Foer is a writer of considerable brilliance' Observer So impeccably imagined, so courageously executed, so everlastingly moving' Baltimore Sun 'Pulsates with dazzling ideas' Times Literary Supplement It will have you biting back the tears' Glamour a funny, heart-rending portrayal of a child coping with disaster. ![]() 'The most incredible fictional nine-year-old ever created. 'Utterly engaging, hugely involving, tragic, funny and intensely moving. ![]() ![]() ADAPTED INTO A FEATURE FILM WITH TOM HANKSįrom 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 ![]()
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