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Either four hundred and seventytwo people

It may seem daring to celebrate the architecture of a book who obsessively revolves around the destruction of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. This is yet the structure of the book both disconcerting and relentlessly logical, leads us, us loses and guides us through the history of young Oskar Schell. Itself is defined as "inventor, designer jewelry, entomologist, letter writers, francophile, vegan, origamiste, pacifist, percussionist, astronomer, archaeologist, collector", in short, a child of nine years with amazing intelligence, chipped by grief, compounded by the pain.

For his neighbour Mr Black, record all the people that it crosses, stylized one word, it is simply "Oskar Schell: son". Son of a man died September 11, but how, asks Oskar, burned, crushed, precipitated in a vacuum He returns in loop messages received between 8 pm and 10: 22: 27 GMT that day, where he had hastily school, returned to find the response impossible. Unless the answer not fiends in the trunk or behind the door which he found by chance the key in a blue vase, at the top of the fatherly dressing, one year just after his disappearance. But at eighteen locks per capita, 162 million locks to try it in the huge city that he does not know. Only index: name entered on the envelope, Black. Either four hundred and seventy-two people.

His quest crosses the road to New Yorkers of today, but goes back to the history of his father, abandoned before his birth, his mother, trying to revive a shattered the life of his beloved paternal grandmother who leaves messages on the edge of the window, with Ron, night and which, almost blind, wrote his lifethousands of pages, on a typewriter without Ribbon. His grandfather rescued bombing of Dresden, Lord tenant of his life and the heart of a woman, which multiplies the daily rules to escape the madness of the survivors: "a few months only after our marriage, we started to define in the apartment of" places nothing "where we would be assured of absolute solitude, we we quickly agreed to never watch thus delineated areas."", they would be non-existent territories in the apartment, in which it could temporarily cease to exist".

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Of his great-aunt, also died under us bombs in Germany. And Oskar young still questioned the survivors of Hiroshima, which provide a smattering of response. It is expected the bottom of the page 323 to understand the title, about birds against to skyscrapers men metaphor. Through the pages, in addition to the text, which plays on a typography and different colours, it permeates pictures, elephant eye, woman back, skeleton hand, lock, Russian mountain, flight of birds, and obsessively, a man who fell from a tower. As if one side the secret of Oskar album, in which he noted and glue ends of his life and his reading: "In any event, the staggering thing, is that I read in"National Geographic"that there are more people alive today that he in is dead in the history of humanity." In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at the same time, it would be impossible, because there is not enough skulls! "An extraordinary novel about family and collective memory by the author hailed from"Everything is illuminated", which was conducting in Ukraine research already, his grandfather.