Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of the international bestseller The Complete Illumination, which was adapted into a film in 2005 starring Elijah Wood.

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is his second novel, which became a New York Times Bestseller.

Foer's novel Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is a touching, profound, sincere, and heartbreaking 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 that balances humor and tragedy, destruction and creation, Something and Nothing, life and death.' — J.S. Foer

The novel was adapted into a film in 2012, starring Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks.

'Funny, tender, tragic, and exquisitely constructed, Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close has the mischief and vivacity of a child's unbridled imagination, but also the piercing pain of childhood. Foer's Oskar Schell is only nine years old, but he has already confronted the catastrophes of modern times and proven his uniqueness.' — Cynthia Ozick

'Jonathan Safran Foer's second novel lives up to its promise. It has ambition, virtuosity, puzzles, and, above all, in its portrayal of the orphaned Oskar, an unbearable poignancy. The powerful emotions are truly astounding, not pretended. 'An extraordinary literary achievement.' — Salman Rushdie

'Foer is certainly a new kind of literary warrior—virtuosic, fantastical, brilliant, hilarious, heartbreaking. He has sent bolts of fiery force through the pages of his novel.' — Village Voice