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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

By: Jonathan Safran Foer
Narrated by: Kerry Shale
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When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his father’s closet.

Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, computer consultant, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, amateur astronomer, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, origamist, detective, vegan and collector of butterflies.

When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center, 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…

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Brilliantly written and brilliantly read, I listened twice in a row and have recommended it to all my friends.

Brilliant

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I got this because I have enjoyed Kerry Shale on the radio. He really brings this book to life.

Beautiful book, wonderful reading

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Incredible book but I was astounded by the quality and characterisation from the narrator. Probably the best I have ever heard.

Incredible performance

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My first point HAS to be tge narrator. I had to check that such wildly different vouces were from 1 man: they were. Brilliant

The book is

Fierce and soul searching

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The narrator made this for me. I don't think I would have enjoyed it as much as a written book. A reminder than everyone you pass every day has their own story to tell and that while you might think of yourself as original and 'different', so are they.

extremely wonderful and incredibly narrated

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