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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERADAPTED INTO A FEATURE FILM WITH TOM HANKSFrom 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\/11Utterly engaging, hugely involving, tragic, funny and intensely moving… A heartbreaker SpectatorThe most incredible fictional nine-year-old ever created… a funny, heart-rending portrayal of a child coping with disaster. It will have you biting back the tears GlamourPulsates with dazzling ideas Times Literary SupplementIts a miracle… So impeccably imagined, so courageously executed, so everlastingly moving Baltimore SunJonathan Safran Foer is a writer of considerable brilliance ObserverIn 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, hes sure of that. But which of New Yorks 162 million locks does it open?So begins a quest that takes Oskar – inventor, letter-writer and amateur detective – across New Yorks 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 of a family mystery that stretches back fifty years. But will it take him any closer to, or even further from, his lost father?
Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies. When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his father’s closet. It is a search which leads him into the lives of strangers, through the five boroughs of New York, into history, to the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima, and on an inward journey which brings him ever closer to some kind of peace.
- Ancho: 2 cm
- Alto: 1.3 cm
- Fecha de lanzamiento: 01/01/2006
- Plaza de edición: REINO UNIDO
- Año de edición: 2006
- ISBN: 9780141012698
- Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
- Idioma: INGLÉS
- Editorial: PENGUIN
- Nº de páginas: 368
Este libro ha sido escrito y pretenece a Jonathan Safran Foer
