THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ADAPTED INTO A FEATURE FILM WITH TOM HANKS From the critically acclaimed author of Here I Am; Everything is Illuminated and We are the Weather - a heartrending and unforgettable novel set in the aftermath of the 9/11 'Utterly engaging; hugely involving; tragic; funny and intensely moving... A heartbreaker' Spectator 'The most incredible fictional nine-year-old ever created... a funny; heart-rending portrayal of a child coping with disaster. It will have you biting back the tears' Glamour 'Pulsates with dazzling ideas' Times Literary Supplement 'It's a miracle... So impeccably imagined; so courageously executed; so everlastingly moving' Baltimore Sun 'Jonathan Safran Foer is a writer of considerable brilliance' Observer In a vase in a closet; a couple of years after his father died in 9/11; nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key... The key belonged to his father; he's sure of that. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open? So begins a quest that takes Oskar - inventor; letter-writer and amateur detective - across New York's five boroughs and into the jumbled lives of friends; relatives and complete strangers. He gets heavy boots; he gives himself little bruises and he inches ever nearer to the heart of a family mystery that stretches back fifty years. But will it take him any closer to; or even further from; his lost father?