Research Catalog

Title

• קרוב להפליא ורועש להחריד / ג׳ונתן ספרן פויר; מאנגלית: אסף גברון.
• Ḳarov le-hafli ṿe-roʻesh le-haḥarid / G'onatan Safran Foyer ; me-Anglit Asaf Gavron.

Author

Foer, Jonathan Safran, 1977-

Publication

• אור יהודה : כנרת, 2007.
• Or Yehudah : Kineret, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Gavron, Assaf

Description

308 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Oskar Schell is the nine-year-old son of a man killed in the World Trade Center bombing who searches the city for a lock that fits a black key his father left behind. As Oskar roams New York, he encounters a motley assortment of humanity who are all survivors in their own way. He befriends a 103-year-old war reporter, a tour guide who never leaves the Empire State Building, and lovers enraptured or scorned. Ultimately, Oskar ends his journey where it began, at his father's grave. But now he is accompanied by the silent stranger who has been renting the spare room of his grandmother's apartment. They are there to dig up his father's empty coffin.

Uniform Title

Extremely loud and incredibly close. Hebrew.

Alternative Title

• Extremely loud and incredibly close.
• Extremely loud and incredibly close

Subject

• 2001
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 > Fiction
• Fathers and sons > Fiction
• New York (N.Y.) > Fiction

Genre/Form

Fiction

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

OCLC

• 166140871
• SCSB-12864552

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library