Extremely loud and incredibly close.

You must read this.



Meet nine year old Oskar who has just lost his
father in the 9/11 and he will take you on an
incredible adventure around New York city!
I believe you will fall in love with him.

Here:

'What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them and they played the sounds of our hearts through little speakers, which could be in the pouches of our overalls? When you skateboarded down the street at night you could hear everyone's heartbeat, and they could hear yours, sort of like sonar. (...) That would be so weird, except that the place in the hospital where babies are born would sound like a crystal chandelier in a houseboat, because the babies wouldn't have had time to match their heartbeats yet. And at the finish line at the end of the New York City Marathon it would sound like war.'

It is one of the single most beautiful books I
have ever read in my life.

- E