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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERADAPTED INTO A FEATURE FILM WITH TOM HANKSFrom 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' ObserverIn 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?

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Autor: Jonathan Safran Foer

Autor

JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Jonathan Safran Foer nasceu em Washington e é graduado em Princeton, com licenciatura em filosofia. Tanto a não-ficção quanto a ficção que escreve sempre abordam temas atuais, em consonância com as grandes discussões em pauta. Já escreveu outros livros sobre comportamento humano e sobre a indústria que explora os animais, e seu livro “Tudo se Ilumina” ganhou dois prêmios, o National Jewish Award Book em 2001 e o Guardian First Book Award em 2002. Segue uma dieta baseada no vegetarianismo desde os dez anos, e seu livro “Comer Animais” aborda os problemas associados ao consumo de carne industrializada sob um ponto de vista ético.