![]() ![]() As he continues to search the city, he meets an old man who he nicknames “the renter”. He befriends an older woman named Abby Black, but she has no information. Oskar becomes obsessed with finding out about the key and calls every person in the phonebook with the last name Black. One day, he finds a key in an envelope in a vase he accidentally breaks, with the word “Black” on the envelope. When the novel begins, it has been a year since Oskar’s father was killed, and Oskar suffers from depression, insomnia, and panic attacks. ![]() Exploring themes of loss, grief, and the historic impact of both 9/11 and the Holocaust, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close was critically acclaimed albeit somewhat divisive, and was adapted into an Oscar-nominated film directed by Stephen Daldry and starring Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock. When Oskar discovers a mysterious key that belonged to his late father, he embarks on a search around New York to discover the truth. Focusing on a nine-year-old boy named Oskar Schell who is implied to have Asperger’s Syndrome, the story takes place a year after the boy’s father was killed in the September 11 terrorist attacks. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is a 2005 novel by Jonathan Safran Foer. ![]()
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