Jonathan Safran Foer April 6, 2005

Jonathan Safran Foer will read from and discuss his new novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor and tenderness, he confronts the traumas of our recent history. Meet Oskar Schell, an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, pacifist, correspondent with Stephen Hawking and Ringo Starr. He is nine years old. And he is on an urgent search through the five boroughs of New York. His mission is to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11.

Free tickets are required for this event and can be obtained at the Information Desk at Harvard Book Store.