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jazzy_daveJonathan Safron Foer "Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close" (Penguin)
The central story in this novel is of a young boy's search to make sense of his father's death in 9/11. It is a complex and multi-layered tale; fragments of stories about other lives pop up, of people who have been traumatised by acts of war and terrorism.
This was far from an easy read and I found it a little too self-consciously clever. Mystery is layered on mystery. Will Oskar find the lock to fit his key into? Why is his mother letting him wander round New York alone? How do the many mini-stories link together? Why is there a picture of mating tortoises?
Ultimately though, I stayed with it because I didn't feel I could leave Oskar, knowing as he knew that he hadn't picked up the phone to talk to his dad on that last day
The central story in this novel is of a young boy's search to make sense of his father's death in 9/11. It is a complex and multi-layered tale; fragments of stories about other lives pop up, of people who have been traumatised by acts of war and terrorism.
This was far from an easy read and I found it a little too self-consciously clever. Mystery is layered on mystery. Will Oskar find the lock to fit his key into? Why is his mother letting him wander round New York alone? How do the many mini-stories link together? Why is there a picture of mating tortoises?
Ultimately though, I stayed with it because I didn't feel I could leave Oskar, knowing as he knew that he hadn't picked up the phone to talk to his dad on that last day
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