Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close: A Novel (Illustrations (Some Col.))

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, he sets out to solve the mystery of a key found in his father's closet.