Extremely loud and incredibly close

Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of the international bestseller The Complete Illumination, which was adapted into a film in 2005 with Elijah Wood in the title role. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is his second novel, which became the best book of 2006 according to the New York Times Bestseller list. “Funny, tender, tragic, and gracefully constructed, Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close has the mischief and vivacity of a child’s unbridled imagination and, at the same time, the piercing pain of childhood. Foer’s Oscar Schell is only nine years old, but he has already had to face the catastrophes of modern times and prove his uniqueness.” — Cynthia Ozick “This is a novel that balances humor and tragedy, destruction and creation, Something and Nothing, life and death.” — J.S. FoerThe novel was adapted into a film in 2012, starring Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks. "This secret was a hole in my heart into which all joy fell."