Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of the global bestseller "Everything Is Illuminated," adapted into a 2005 film starring Elijah Wood. "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" is his second novel, named Best Book of the Year by the New York Times Bestseller list. Foer's novel "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" is a touching, profound, sincere, and heart-wrenching story told by a 9-year-old boy whose father died in one of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. "This is a novel balancing humor and tragedy, destruction and creation, Something and Nothing, life and death." — J.S. Foer The novel was adapted into a 2012 film starring Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks. "In Jonathan Safran Foer's funny, tender, tragic, and elegantly constructed novel 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close' there is the mischief and liveliness of untamed childhood imagination alongside piercing childlike pain. Foer's Oscar Shell is only nine, but he has already faced modern disasters and proven his uniqueness." — Cynthia Ozick "Jonathan Safran Foer's second novel lives up to all expectations. It contains ambition, virtuosity, puzzles, but above all—regarding the portrayal of the orphaned Oscar—there is an unbearable poignancy. The strongest emotions truly shake, not fake. An outstanding literary achievement." — Salman Rushdie "Foer is definitely a new kind of literary warrior—virtuoso, fantastic, brilliant, funny, heart-breaking. He sent fiery arrows to the pages of his novel." — Village Voice