Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key...The key belonged to his father, he s sure of that. But which of New York s 162 million locks does it open?So begins a quest that takes Oskar - inventor, letter-writter and amateur detective - across New York s five boroughs and into the jumbled lives of friends, relatives and complete strangers. He gets heavy boots, he gives himself little bruises and he inches ever nearer to the heart o