Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
In apparently one of the first novels to deal with the 9/11 tragedy, Jonathan Safran Foer writes with a post-modern flair using multiple narrators, scrap-book photographs, coloured highlights, a variety of fonts and layout, and even blank pages to give his book a stimulating visual dimension. Oskar is a nine-year-old amateur inventor, jewellery designer, astrophysicist, tambourine player and pacifist whose father died in the World Trade Centre collapse. Oskar embarks on a quest for answers about what exactly happened to his father and why; a haunting, humorous and emotional story.
Ms Crynes
