About the book: 2007 / From the publisher "There is mischief in Jonathan Safran Foer's funny, tender, tragic and elegantly constructed novel "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" and the vividness of an unbridled child's imagination and at the same time a piercing child's pain. Foer's Oskar Schell is only nine, but he has already faced the catastrophes of modernity and proved his uniqueness." Cynthia Ozick "Jonathan Safran Foer's second novel lives up to all the hopes placed on it. , virtuosity of performance, puzzles, but most importantly - in everything that concerns the portrayal of the orphaned Oscar - unbearable poignancy. The strongest emotions shake for real, and not for show. "Salman Rushdie.