'' Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close '' is a 2005 novel by Jonathan Safran Foer . The book 's narrator is a nine-year-old boy named Oskar Schell . In the story , Oskar discovers a key in a vase that belonged to his father , a year after he is killed in the September 11 attacks . The discovery inspires Oskar to search all around New York for information about the key and closure following his father 's death
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close