![]() Although not quite the comic tour de force that Illuminated Foer embellishes the narrative with evocative graphics, including photographs, colored highlights and passages of illegibly overwritten text, and takes his unique flair for the poetry of miscommunication to occasionally gimmicky lengths, like a two-page soliloquy written entirely in numerical code. , Oskar turns his naïvely precocious vocabulary to the understanding of historical tragedy, as he searches New York for the lock that matches a mysterious key left by his father when he was killed in the September 11 attacks, a quest that intertwines with the story of his grandparents, whose lives were blighted by the firebombing of Dresden. Like the second-language narrator of Illuminated , is a nine-year-old amateur inventor, jewelry designer, astrophysicist, tambourine player and pacifist. ![]() Oskar Schell, hero of this brilliant follow-up to Foer's bestselling Everything Is Illuminated EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE Jonathan Safran Foer A review with a blue-tinted title indicates a book of unusual commercial interest that hasn't received a starred review. ![]() A starred review indicates a book of outstanding quality. ![]()
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